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“The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is the nation’s first natural-habitat refuge specifically developed to provide a haven for endangered African and Asian elephants. There are currently sixteen Asian and three African elephant residents. It is a non-profit organization, licensed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. It is the only sanctuary in America to offer the setting, climate, and native vegetation that parallels habitat in the elephants’ native wetlands. We provide sanctuary for captive elephants that are old, sick or needy. Our primary objective is to provide a spacious and rich environment in which elephants can freely exercise their sensitive, intense socially gregarious, complex, and remarkably intelligent natures. We believe that all elephants should be treated with respect and minimal intrusion. Utilizing more than 2700 acres, The Elephant Sanctuary provides three separate multi-hundred acre protected, natural habitat environments for Asian and African elephants. Phil Snyder, regional director emeritus of the Humane Society of the United States has stated, “The Elephant Sanctuary” represents the future of enlightened captive elephant management.” - Zoo and Aquarium Visitor
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“Regular readers of Environmental Graffiti will recognize that I was, as I usually am, totally, completely wrong. America, as it turns out, is the second largest consumer of Ivory in the world, and contributes heavily to the poaching and black market trade.”- Environmental Graffiti

“After seven years of legal wrangling, a federal judge rejected efforts Thursday by America’s foremost circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, to derail a lawsuit alleging cruel treatment of its elephants.” - Forbes.com

“During America’s debut in the world of elephant polo last week, frustrated U.S. captain Kimberly Zenz nearly screamed herself hoarse.” - The Seattle Times

“But not too many of us know where the term came from. “Jumbo” is the West African word for elephant and was the name of a huge animal captured in Africa and exhibited in London beginning in 1865. U.S. circus impresario P. T. Barnum purchased the elephant and brought him to New York in 1882, where he paraded up Broadway on Easter Sunday. He captured America’s imagination, and his name entered the language as a synonym for anything oversized.” - Kansas City infoZine

Since elephants are generally buried where they died there are monuments to them scattered across the United States of America. This site says it is dedicated to these elephants but the site made me sad … reading about how they were treated and the morbidity of it all.Roadside America