Its About Billy Again
THERE IS NOTHING EDUCATIONAL OR BENEFICIAL TO THE PUBIC ABOUT IMPRISONING BILLY, THE ELEPHANT.
Help Shut Down L.A. Zoo Elephant Exhibit And Send Solitary Elephant Billy To A Sanctuary
Please write to your L.A. City Council members!
We urgently need your help to close down the L.A. Zoo elephant exhibit and send its lone elephant, Billy, to a sanctuary. We are so very close to freeing him from his lonely existence in a miserable, barren zoo pen — please don’t let him down! This is our very last chance to make a difference.
City Council member Tony Cardenas has presented a motion to stop the L.A. Zoo’s $42 million elephant exhibit renovation. Despite its mammoth price tag and expense to taxpayers, it still will not provide the space elephants need, and elephants will continue to suffer and die painfully and prematurely at the zoo.
It is critical that as many advocates as possible attend these meetings to show clear and strong support for closing the exhibit and ending Billy’s years of isolation and deprivation.
Zoo supporters will be out in large numbers. Let’s be sure that our voices outnumber theirs!
Fifteen elephants have died at the L.A. Zoo. More than half never lived to age 20. Elephants have a natural lifespan of 60-70 years.
Billy is held in solitary confinement, where he spends his days repetitively bobbing his head up and down in a tiny zoo pen. A win next week means he will be able to start a new life in a natural-habitat sanctuary where he’ll have the space and natural conditions that all elephants so desperately need.
This is our only chance to stop the suffering once and for all! Help free Billy!
ACTIONS:
WRITE/CALL THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS!
We need to tell City Council that taxpayers don’t want their money wasted on an elephant exhibit that still doesn’t give elephants the space they need. Please send emails and make phone calls to express your support for shutting down the L.A. Zoo elephant exhibit.
If you don’t live in the City of L.A., please contact the mayor and L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti (contact info provided below) and express your support for closing the elephant exhibit and sending Billy to a sanctuary.
To locate your councilmember on-line, visit http://www.lacity.org/ and scroll down to “My Neighborhood” and enter your address. You can also dial 311 within the City of Los Angeles, or call 213-473-3231 from the Greater Los Angeles area.
You can use the following message points:
… The $42 million L.A. Zoo elephant exhibit is a waste of taxpayer money and won’t provide the space elephants need.
… Too many elephants have suffered and died prematurely at the L.A. Zoo. A recent study in the journal Science has proven that life in zoos is cutting short elephants’ lives.
… Billy has spent years in solitary confinement in a tiny zoo pen, where he constantly bobs his head up and down, a sign of psychological distress.
… The City of Los Angeles has made great strides toward becoming more humane. Now it’s time to include elephants by closing the elephant exhibit and sending Billy to a sanctuary as soon as possible.
CONTACTS:
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
Los Angeles City Hall
200 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-978-0600 Fax: 213-978-0750
Email: mayor@lacity.org
EMAIL BLOCK (does not include Councilmember Alarcon; use contact form for him as indicated below):
councilmember.reyes@lacity.org; councilmember.greuel@lacity.org; councilmember.zine@lacity.org;councilmember.labonge@lacity.org; councilmember.weiss@lacity.org; councilmember.parks@lacity.org;councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org; jan.perry@lacity.org; councilmember.wesson@lacity.org;councilmember.rosendahl@lacity.org; councilmember.smith@lacity.org; councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org;councilmember.huizar@lacity.org; councilmember.hahn@lacity.org; mayor@lacity.org
District 1 – Ed Reyes
Phone: 213-473-7001 Fax: 213-485-8907
Email: councilmember.reyes@lacity.org
District 2 – Wendy Greuel
Phone: 213-473-7002 Fax: 213-680-7895
Email: councilmember.greuel@lacity.org
District 3 – Dennis P. Zine
Phone: 213-473-7003 Fax: 213-
Email: councilmember.zine@lacity.org
District 4 – Tom LaBonge
Phone: 213-473-7004 Fax: 213-624-7810
Email: councilmember.labonge@lacity.org
District 5 – Jack Weiss
Phone: 213-473-7005 Fax: 213-978-2250
Email: councilmember.weiss@lacity.org
District 6 – Tony Cardenas – ORIGINATOR OF THE MOTION
Phone: 213-473-7006 Fax: 213-847-0549
Email: councilmember.cardenas@lacity.org
District 7 – Richard Alarcon
Phone: 213-473-7007 Fax: 213-847-0707
Email: (use contact form at www.lacity.org/council/cd7/contact.htm
District 8 – Bernard Parks
Phone: 213-473-7008 Fax: 213-485-7683
Email: councilmember.parks@lacity.org
District 9 – Jan Perry
Phone: 213-473-7009 Fax: 213-473-5946
Email: jan.perry@lacity.org
District 10 – Herb J. Wesson, Jr.
Phone: 213-473-7010 Fax: 213-485-9829
Email: councilmember.wesson@lacity.org
District 11 – Bill Rosendahl
Phone: 213-473-7011 Fax: 213-473-6926
Email: councilmember.rosendahl@lacity.org
District 12 – Greig Smith
Phone: 213-473-7012 Fax: 213-473-6925
Email: councilmember.smith@lacity.org
District 13 – Eric Garcetti
Phone: 213-473-7013 Fax: 213-613-0819
Email: councilmember.garcetti@lacity.org
District 14 – Jose Huizar
Phone: 213-473-7014 Fax: 213-847-0680
Email: councilmember.huizar@lacity.org
District 15 – Janice Hahn
Phone: 213-473-7015 Fax: 213-626-5431
Email: councilmember.hahn@lacity.org
Thank you for taking action to help rescue Billy and shut down the L.A. Zoo elephant exhibit! Please emailzoos@idausa.org with any questions or call 323-301-5730
EVEN IF YOU DON’T KNOW A TON ABOUT THIS OR IT’S NOT A GIANT ISSUE FOR YOU, IT IS FOR ME.. SO DO IT FOR ME.
LOVE YOU, MEAN IT!
IAN