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“Forty-seven-year-old African elephant Ruby, who garnered enormous media attention last year when she left the Los Angeles Zoo for the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) Elephant Sanctuary near Sacramento, Calif., will celebrate her one year “retirement” anniversary on May 3, 2008.” - The Earth Times

“The PAWS ARK2000 sanctuary in San Andreas has a 9,000-pound new arrival.” - Calaveras Enterprise

“After seven hours on the road and 40 years spent in circuses and zoos, the 46-year-old African elephant from the Los Angeles Zoo retired Tuesday to the rolling hills of Northern California.” - LA Daily News

“After years of lobbying by animal-rights activists, an African elephant named Ruby was loaded into the back of an air-conditioned truck before dawn Tuesday and sent to a Northern California sanctuary to live out her life in more spacious digs.” - KNTV

“Ruby, the Los Angeles Zoo’s much-debated elephant, leaves town today for greener pastures in a Northern California elephant sanctuary.” - LA Daily News

“She’s as flamboyant as a Pollock and as wild as a de Kooning. This weekend, Ruby the elephant took abstract expressionism to even greater heights.” - Press-Telegram

“A California elephant sanctuary says the Los Angeles Zoo’s aging African elephant, Ruby, will arrive at the sanctuary for her retirement next week.” - EarthTimes

“Just of few of many examples: In May 2003, an elephant named Ruby was transferred from the Los Angeles Zoo to the Knoxville Zoo and then back to Los Angeles.” - stamford times

“Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Zoo Director John Lewis today jointly announced that, after years of helping to educate the Southern California community about elephants, Ruby the elephant will be moved to the Performing Animal Welfare Society in Northern California (PAWS). The 46-year old African elephant has led a fulfilling life at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (LA Zoo) where she has lived for nearly 10 active and healthy years.” - Earth Times

“The Los Angeles Zoo Commission on Tuesday endorsed the idea of sending Ruby the African elephant to a wildlife sanctuary, but stopped short of acting on the plan.” - NBC4

“The Los Angeles Zoo Commission on Tuesday endorsed the idea of sending Ruby the African elephant to a wildlife sanctuary, but stopped short of acting on the plan.” - NBC4

” The Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS) Hollywood Office applauds yesterday’s decision by Los Angeles
Superior Court Judge George H. Wu to retain continuing court jurisdiction over
Ruby the elephant until a new status hearing on January 5, 2005.” - PR Newswire