Episode 31: Vigil4Elephants

Wild For Change

On today’s Wild For Change podcast, we speak with three hosts of Vigil4Elephants that commemorates the elephant lives that were lost each year in captivity;

• Barbara Lovett, founder, and president of Save Nosey Now, Inc.
• Courtney Scott, founder and president of Free the Oregon Zoo Elephants.
• Sandra Clinger, president of The Elephant Advocacy Project (TEAP) and a board member of Save Nosey Now.

This group of dedicated souls have been coming together since 2019 to honor and mourn the captive elephants who lives were lost each year whether it be in a zoo, circus, forced labor, or other tourist attraction.

These elephants who endured living a life held captive and exploited, whether it was short or long life, had their freedom and rights to live wild taken away. Some of these sentient beings were traumatically separated from their family. No longer were they to live a life in the wild as intended but a life in servitude to humans who exploited each elephant until the end.

In this podcast we learn;

• How Vigil4Elephants began.
• How elephants whose lives were lost are commemorated each year.
• About the negative impacts and trauma an elephant endures in captivity in regards to their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
• The difference between an elephant’s life in the wild versus in captivity.
• About the breeding programs in zoos and the life span of captive born elephants.
• Which countries allow wild elephants to be taken out of the wild and placed in captivity.
• How zoos in the United States are lobbying to capture wild elephants and import them to the U.S.
• How you can be a part of Vigil4Elephants and what you can do to help captive elephants.

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