“Following last week’s death of a female infant elephant at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, the Save Wild Elephants Coalition (of which IDA is a member) renewed their call for an end to the captive breeding and capture of elephants from the wild for display in zoos. The young pachyderm who died was born to a female who was one of 11 elephants captured in 2003 from the African country of Swaziland, and was euthanized at the San Diego Zoo after becoming severely ill. The Coalition opposed the import of these elephants before they were taken from their homeland for display in the U.S., and charges that this tragic incident is just one more piece of evidence pointing to the failure of U.S. zoos’ elephant breeding and display programs.” - IDA eNews

“Animal rights groups are fighting to save an original resident of the San Diego Wild Animal Park.” - 10News.com

“Nuzzling his toy elephant, an orphaned Indian rhinoceros made his public debut at California’s San Diego Wild Animal Park yesterday. Born January 7, the calf is the latest of 46 born at the facility since 1978. Because his mother died of complications of childbirth, zoo workers are rearing him by hand in the park’s nursery.” - National Geographic News - not exactly about elephants but too cute not to include.

“San Diego Wild Animal Park officials and the eight-member herd of African elephants that live there celebrated two anniversaries last week. Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of the herd’s predawn arrival at the park, after having traveled by air for a day and a half from a Swaziland game reserve. The delivery was the first time in 20 years that wild African elephants had been imported to the United States.” - North County Times

“Barriers erected around a herd of eight quarantined African elephants at the San Diego Wild Animal park have been removed, park officials announced Friday.” - North County Times

“The San Diego Wild Animal Park’s African elephant herd was joined on exhibit Thursday by a 5-week-old calf, according to park officials.” - NBCSandiego.com

“Pachyderm lovers can now watch the San Diego Wild Animal Park’s newborn African elephant, Vus’musi, on an “Elephant Cam,” zoo officials announced Friday.” - TheSanDiegoChannel.com

“The countdown has begun, even if nobody knows when it will end. Anticipation is mounting behind the scenes at the San Diego Wild Animal Park, where keepers are closely monitoring a pregnant African elephant that is expected to give birth in the next month or two.” - North County Times

“As the Paradise fire crept closer and closer to the San Diego Wild Animal Park on Oct. 26, many people sat glued to their televisions and wondered, how do you evacuate elephants, zebras and lions?” - North County Times

“PETA was at the zoo to protest the delivery of seven African elephants to the San Diego Wild Animal Park.” - NBCSandiego.com

“Animal rights activists filed suit on Thursday in federal court to stop the San Diego Wild Animal Park from bringing elephants from Africa.” - NBCSandiego.com