The Bronx Zoo reacted Friday to a bill introduced in the New York City Council that would ban elephant captivity in the city, 1010 WINS reports. The bill was introduced Thursday by Brooklyn Council Member Shahana Hanif.
“Studies have shown that elephants are emotionally complex and suffer deeply in inadequate enclosures,” she wrote.
According to the City Council website, the bill would “prohibit the keeping, restraint, or possession of elephants in the city unless certain enumerated conditions concerning adequate habitat and treatment are met.” Among the nine conditions are that the habitat must be a minimum of 15 acres per elephant and that elephants can’t be used in “educational or commercial exhibitions” or made to do labor. It would also require elephants have “stimuli necessary for emotional and physical wellbeing” and the ability to “forage for food and water throughout the habitat.” Elephants also must be housed in herds or near other elephants if solitary. 1010 WINS
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Ridiculous young joyful idiots.
This is a way to see a great elephant!
It follows on the heels of the Criminal captivity ban
Isn’t it wonderful to see that there’s nothing pressing on the City’s agenda, and this all they have to worry about?!
The worst places for elephants are circuses where they are awfully abused by trainers.
They should be banning parking tickets instead.
The useful idiots are the people of New York who vote for these morons
YOU MUST TAKE YOUR CITY BACK FROM THESE LOWLIFES!!
Human Lives Matter
Has this millennial miscreant ever been to the Bronx Zoo? None of the enclosures are inadequate. This is an insult to the caretakers and vets at the Zoo. The New York Zoological Society should have the state legislature introduce a bill banning morons, idiots and imbeciles from any public office, from schoolteacher and up. Illogical and outrageous, we pay these people?
see https://matzav.com/landmark-ruling-in-ny-elephant-denied-human-rights/
this ruling would be unlawful per the ruling in the article i just quoted