Auckland Zoo to get two new elephants

30 May 2011 08:54p.m.

Professor Duke wrote:

This is just unacceptable by Len brown bringing this animals into the zoo of Auckland is just being cruel to the animals this just as the same as taking the house of a rich family and then leaving them on the streets to suffer badly. Action must be taken as soon as possible.

27 May 2011 03:18p.m.

Deborah wrote:

June 11 is the International Day of Action foe Elephants in Zoos aimed to highlight the tragic effects of keeping elephants in small, impoverished zoo pens where they are suffering and dying prematurely. Yet the Auckland council voted in favour of importing two more elephants. If according to Mayor Brown this is a step toward making Auckland an event's capital, I have to ask what kind of city he's envisioning. What's next, bullfighting and cockfighting? It's not about the quantity of the events but the quality and moral values that accompany them. It's disappointing that the Auckland Council has so regard towards elephants welfare and only see them as the means to a monetary profit. Shame on you Auckland!