“The San Francisco Zoo dropped its elephant exhibit. So have zoos in Anchorage, Detroit, Madison and Chicago. In each case, the zoos could no longer justify their cramped and lonely quarters in the name of education and conservation. ” - OregonLive.com
“ELEPHANT WATCHERS: PAWS places limit of 20 minutes on viewing as some become hogs with online animal time.” - Anchorage Daily News
“Freshly arrived at her new digs in California, Maggie the elephant is still getting accustomed to other pachyderms at the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s elephant habitat - while PAWS itself is struggling to deal with Maggie’s popularity.” - Anchorage Daily News
“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
“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
“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
“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
“But Sunday saw a first: Maggie, the Anchorage Zoo’s beloved African elephant, had lain down inside her indoor enclosure - and she wouldn’t get up. Zoo employees asked firefighters from Station 8 on O’Malley Road to help” - Anchorage Daily News
“An animal rights group has rated the zoo in Anchorage, Alaska, as the worst in the country for elephants.” - The Post Chronicle
“The controversy has spread beyond Alaska, with animal rights groups as far off as England posting photographs of Maggie on their Web sites and urging her transfer. Since her stable mate Annabelle died seven years ago, she has lived without the company of another elephant, contrary to national zoo standards. ” - Anchorage Daily News
