“Maggie captured the attention and hearts of people throughout the state and the Lower 48 this year when she became ill and collapsed. The event increased the pressure on the Alaska Zoo to find Maggie a new home in a warmer climate.” - KTUU.com
“Though she originally moved to Alaska to provide companionship for another elephant, over the years Maggie blossomed into a star attraction and icon of the Alaska Zoo.” - KTUU.com
“After four decades of elephant-keeping, the Alaska Zoo prepared to hand over its beloved pachyderm Maggie to a sanctuary in California.” - sacbee.com
“The Alaska Zoo has announced that it will send Maggie, a 27-year-old African elephant, to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) sanctuary in California. This is fantastic news for Maggie! Maggie was captured in Zimbabwe in 1981 during a cull—a killing operation intended to reduce the population of wild elephants.” - RacingWest
“A proposal is on the table to get Alaska’s only elephant out of the state, and for the first time this summer, the Alaska Zoo and animal-rights groups could have something to agree on.” - Seattle Times
“The controversy over Maggie the elephant’s health was set aside today as the Alaska Zoo’s lone pachyderm celebrated her 25th birthday.” - KTUU.com
“Maggie the elephant is being offered an all-expenses-paid trip to California from an animal welfare group that says it’ll ship her from the Alaska Zoo to its elephant sanctuary. The offer comes from the California based Progressive Animal Welfare Society, also known as PAWS.” - KTUU.com
“Zookeepers presented seven possible new homes for Maggie on Wednesday night to the Alaska Zoo board, but a final decision is probably more than a month away, and it’s unlikely the zoo’s only African elephant will leave the state by the end of the summer.” - Anchorage Daily News
“Following an impassioned public outcry, the Alaska Zoo board has decided to relocate the state’s only elephant to another state under certain conditions, the board president said Wednesday.” - Seattle Times
“If there was a meter at the Alaska Zoo that gauged how strongly people feel about the fate of Maggie the elephant –”Should she stay?” or “Should she go? — you might think it would look like this:” - SitNews
“The founder of the Alaska Zoo said she’s torn over the question facing the zoo’s board of directors: should Maggie stay or should she go?” - Daily Herald
“The Alaska Zoo’s board of directors, under intense pressure from critics of Maggie the elephant’s confinement there, will likely vote Tuesday to move the pachyderm out of Alaska, the board’s chairman said today.” - Anchorage Daily News
“An animal-rights organization has offered to fly the director of the Alaska zoo to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee so he could see for himself where their zoo’s sick elephant could go if she left Alaska.” - Alaska Report
“Maggie the elephant’s medical problems are still a mystery, but the Alaska Zoo’s prized pachyderm is up and walking around again.” - KTUU.com
“PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, is officially calling on the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate the latest incident with Maggie the elephant at the Alaska Zoo.” - KTVA
“Maggie was down for six or seven hours before she was lifted upright Wednesday in her enclosure at the Alaska Zoo in Anchorage. On Sunday the 25-year-old African elephant was down on her concrete floor for as long as 19 hours before she was set back on her feet.” - The Olympian
“Concerned over Maggie the elephant’s inactive lifestyle, authorities at an Alaska zoo decided to call in firefighters to help stand the pudgy pachyderm back on her feet. The 7,500-pound Maggie had been lying down on the ground for about 12 hours and zookeepers were worried that the elephant may suffer breathing and other problems due to its massive weight and may even die if it stayed inactive for too long.” - AHN
“On Jan. 9, the In Defense of Animals group announced the “Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants in 2006.” To hardly anyone’s surprise, the Alaska Zoo was at the top of that list.” - The Northern Light
