The Elephant Sanctuary | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:18:10 +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 The Elephant Sanctuary | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Steven M. Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project https://talkinganimals.net/2022/01/steven-m-wise-founder-and-president-of-the-nonhuman-rights-project/ https://talkinganimals.net/2022/01/steven-m-wise-founder-and-president-of-the-nonhuman-rights-project/#respond Wed, 12 Jan 2022 05:00:50 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=9225 Steven M. Wise—founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP); an attorney, author, and legal scholar, Wise is leading NhRP’s pioneering effort to free an elephant named Happy from the Bronx Zoo through a writ of habeas corpus, aiming to change her status from “thing” to “legal person”—reviews NhRP’s legal gambit when we previously […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2022/01/steven-m-wise-founder-and-president-of-the-nonhuman-rights-project/feed/ 0 9225 Barbara Trask Lovett, president of Save Nosey Now, advocate for captive elephants https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/ https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/#respond Wed, 05 May 2021 04:00:34 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=8697 Barbara Trask Lovett—president of Save Nosey Now, member of the Board of Directors of The Elephant Advocacy Project, and generally a veteran advocate for improving the lives of captive elephants—recounts part of her background and how earlier efforts for Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (at times, working closely with Paul Watson) gradually mutated into parallel concerns […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2021/05/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now-advocate-for-captive-elephants/feed/ 0 8697 Barbara Trask Lovett, president of Save Nosey Now! https://talkinganimals.net/2018/07/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now/ https://talkinganimals.net/2018/07/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now/#respond Wed, 25 Jul 2018 04:00:46 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=6965 Barbara Trask Lovett—the president of Save Nosey Now! (SNN), an organization that helped a high-profile, long-suffering circus elephant (Nosey) win freedom from the neglectful, exploitative treatment of her owner…and seeks to educate the public about the plight of captive elephants, and pursue elephant-related litigation, legislation, protests, and other measures designed to improve their lives—recounts a […]

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]]> https://talkinganimals.net/2018/07/barbara-trask-lovett-president-of-save-nosey-now/feed/ 0 6965 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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