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The Guardian has just obtained heartbreaking footage of five young elephants being captured in Zimbabwe to be sold to zoos in China. The elephants were captured in Hwange National Park by Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority officials in early August.
Last December, the Guardian reported that Zimbabwe captured and planned to ship 30 wild elephants to captivity in China. The "shipment" was delayed because the scales that were available were not large enough to weigh the elephants. Once this problem is overcome, the elephants will be exported.
The export of wild elephants from Zimbabwe is legal, but morally reprehensible and devastating from an animal welfare perspective. There is a high rate of death during capture and transport, babies are separated from their mothers and deprived of their mothers’ milk, and the animals live in quarantine for long periods of time once they reach their destination. If the animals survive, they will likely endure horrific abuse and languish in misery for the rest of their lives. A 2015 National Geographic report showed that elephants shipped from Zimbabwe to China were suffering from extreme distress, severe injuries, and neglect.
Elephants are highly intelligent, sensitive creatures that share lifelong family bonds. Mothers and infants who have been separated as a result of human interference recognize one another many years later and show signs of love and affection. Elephants enjoy bathing in rivers, foraging for food, and rolling in the mud - needs that cannot be met in captivity. It is an outrageously cruel act to rip families of elephants apart and force them into a totally unnatural existence.
It truly breaks my heart to imagine the suffering these elephants endure –
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