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Can we get a campaign going to shut down SeaQuest

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The zoo also allows patrons to pay to interact with certain animals, allowing kids to flop around with them in enclosures. I am attaching a news article below, but SeaQuest has locations across the country and documented issues at all of them. They were cowering together under a bright light for all the passersby to balk at.

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Controversial Elephant Death at San Diego Zoo

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Here's the full article from the Los Angeles Times. An animal rights group has called for a federal investigation into the death of an elephant at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. The Northern California-based In Defense of Animals called for the Department of Agriculture, which does inspections of zoos, to investigate Umoya's death.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Some were taken of birds and mammals in zoos or aviaries, others were taken in the wild, often in remote places. It’s a lot harder to ignore conservation campaigns to save habitat when you’ve seen the ‘photographic record’ of what happens when you do. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004. And remembered.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

To the Editor: Re “ Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? ” (news article, Dec. 27): It’s little wonder that Tatiana, the tiger that escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, longed for her freedom. 28, 2007 The writer, on the staff of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, writes for its Animals in Entertainment Campaign.