Brazil to open Latin America’s first elephant sanctuary
Brazil to open Latin America’s first elephant sanctuary
Three female elephants will be the sanctuary’s first guests
Published: 18:23 June 29, 2015 Gulf News
AFP
Rio de Janeiro: Brazil will soon open Latin America’s first elephant sanctuary, and its three initial residents will be retired circus animals in need of a safe haven, a report said Sunday.
“The idea is to build an establishment like the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee in the United States,” Junia Machado, president of the Santuario de Elefantes Brasil group that is behind the project, told the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper.
The facility is due to open by next year and will be in Mato Grosso state in the western cental part of the country, close to soyfields, cattle ranches and a national park.
Machado’s group has purchased a property of about 1,100 hectares (2,700 acres) in a forested area near fields and water sources, about 40 kilometres from the Chapada dos Guimaraes tourist park.
Three female elephants will be the sanctuary’s first guests, including Ramba, a 50-year-old Asian elephant that spent decades working in circuses in Argentina and Chile.
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Here is the link to the Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary's Elecams:
http://www.elephants.com/elecam/
Best wishes for Brazil's new elephant sanctuary. There's a real need for projects like this.
Environment & Energy:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112787581