benefit performance of "Sanctuary Song" (for the elephants)

(via Niagara Action for Animals)

Presented by Everyone Loves Elephants and Zoocheck Canada:

SANCTUARY SONG

Saturday February 11, 2012 7:00pm -10:30 pm (8pm Performance)
The Wychwood Theatre at the Barns
76 Wychwood Ave. Toronto, Ontario

• Pre-show silent auction offering unique items and cash bar
  
• Elephant Labyrinth creative display
• "Sanctuary Song" performance
• talk-back with the creative team
• post show reception

Tickets: $50
Patron: $100 ( includes program acknowledgement and tax receipt for maximum amount allowed)

Proceeds go toward moving the Toronto Zoo's elephants to PAWS Sanctuary and providing assistance for wild and captive elephants around the world.

For more information/tickets:
zoocheck@zoocheck.com
www.zoocheck.com
(416) 285-1744

stir crazy

What's the motivation behind keeping animals in zoos? Protecting species from extinction? Allowing researchers to observe endangered animals to better learn how to protect them in the wild? Or do they provide scientists with research subjects for studies that have nothing to do with the good of the animals? Are they there merely for human entertainment and profit?

According to African elephant expert Winnie Kiiru (project manager of the Amboseli Human-Elephant Conflict Project in Kenya) and Zoocheck Canada, the Edmonton Valley Zoo isn't in it for the benefit of its elephants. Zoocheck and Kiiru have called the Edmonton Valley Zoo's elephant enclosures the worst in Canada. Read the full story here.

btw - the Canadian organization that apparently accredited the Edmonton Valley Zoo, from what I've heard, is basically ineffectual and in all probability biased in zoos' favour. thus the need for an independent group like Zoocheck.

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It's nearly a year later than I expected, but Solefald has finally released Black for Death, the companion album to Red for Fire and the second part of An Icelandic Odyssey. The two definitely flow together, but I have yet to listen to them back to back. That's up next.