captive elephants | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:29:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 captive elephants | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Carol Buckley, longtime expert in the care of captive elephants https://talkinganimals.net/2021/10/carol-buckley-longtime-expert-in-the-care-of-captive-elephants/ https://talkinganimals.net/2021/10/carol-buckley-longtime-expert-in-the-care-of-captive-elephants/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2021 04:00:11 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9066 Carol Buckley—a longtime expert in the care of captive elephants, who co-founded The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, moving on to found Elephant Aid International, a nonprofit organization “that creates innovative approaches to the care and management of captive elephants”—seeks to address, 47 years into working with these animals, what exactly it is about elephants that […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2021/10/carol-buckley-longtime-expert-in-the-care-of-captive-elephants/feed/ 1 9066 Catherine Doyle, Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for PAWS https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/catherine-doyle-director-of-science-research-and-advocacy-for-paws/ https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/catherine-doyle-director-of-science-research-and-advocacy-for-paws/#respond Wed, 16 Sep 2015 04:00:15 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=4856 Catherine Doyle–Director of Science, Research and Advocacy for the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and a noted, veteran elephant advocate —explains what’s behind her longtime passion for working to improve the welfare of captive elephants, while noting, interestingly, that in her formative years in Chicago, she was a regular zoo visitor yet has no particular […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2015/09/catherine-doyle-director-of-science-research-and-advocacy-for-paws/feed/ 0 4856 Scott Blais, elephant expert & ambassador https://talkinganimals.net/2013/10/scott-blais-elephant-expert-ambassador/ https://talkinganimals.net/2013/10/scott-blais-elephant-expert-ambassador/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2013 04:00:44 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=3620   Scott Blais—CEO and Board President of the newly-formed Global Sanctuary for Elephants—discusses his more than 20 years experience working with elephants, including co-founding, in 1995, The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee. He addresses some of the traits and dynamics that make the elephant, for many people, such a singular and alluring animal. Blais also explains […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2013/10/scott-blais-elephant-expert-ambassador/feed/ 1 3620 Pat Derby–co-founder of The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) https://talkinganimals.net/2008/09/pat-derby-co-founder-of-the-performing-animal-welfare-society-paws/ https://talkinganimals.net/2008/09/pat-derby-co-founder-of-the-performing-animal-welfare-society-paws/#respond Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:00:00 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=1590 Pat Derby–co-founder of The Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), which operates three animal sanctuaries in Northern California, among them the 2300-acre ARK 2000, where upwards of a dozen elephants live–discusses the needs of and challenges faced by captive elephants; indicates that her view of elephants in zoos isn’t inherently one of opposition but involves a […]

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