Gaya, Elephant at the Romanian Zoo, Killed by Police Dogs

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Last year Gaya, a lone elephant forced to live by itself at the

miserable Romanian Bucharest Zoo for 34 years, reportedly died by

natural causes last October. Now it is being reported that Gaya

actually died as a result of injuries suffered after being attacked by

police dogs, let loose at the request of zoo keepers. Reportedly, Gaya

cried out for two days before it died, left helpless on the ground by

the keepers.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wzoo101.xml

 

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Dear Edward,

Ms Herma Caelen of EVANA has been working on this issue

and let me know of this incident some time go. (Link here :

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=20661 & p=html)

Gaya, incidentally was featured in a BBC documentary called 'State of the

Ark' which focussed on the plight of hundreds and thousands of animals

languishing in Eastern European zoos. She became a potent symbol of the

neglect, torture and suffering that was characteristic of many of these

zoos. The BBC documentary became part of an endeavour to pass the European

Zoo Directive that saw anti zoo groups like WSPA and Born Free Foundation

come to a rapprochement with pro zoo groups like BIAZA(British and Irish

Association of Zoos and Aquaria) and EAZA(European Association of Zoos and

Aquaria). I have had an opportunity to interview individuals of both the

camps and can say that the best anti zoo movement in the world is that in

Europe, more specifically in England, their achievements are the finest,

superseding what has been achieved in USA and most definitely what we have

managed in India. In fact our zoo project here was largely influenced and

inspired by their work in Europe. When the BBC journalist, Mark Bristow,

visited Baneasa Zoo where Gaya was imprisoned, he wondered if death might

not be a merciful release for some of the animals incarcerated there. As he

put it, death was a dreamed for possibility in the zoo of all

impossibilities. The report was published in BBC Wildlife magazine. If

Gaya's death has brought about a better understanding of the routine pain

that zoo animals have to undergo everywhere, she will not have died in vain.

Trust everything is fine with you.

Best wishes and kind regards,

 

 

 

On 7/15/07, edpipeline <edpipeline wrote:

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> Last year Gaya, a lone elephant forced to live by itself at the

> miserable Romanian Bucharest Zoo for 34 years, reportedly died by

> natural causes last October. Now it is being reported that Gaya

> actually died as a result of injuries suffered after being attacked by

> police dogs, let loose at the request of zoo keepers. Reportedly, Gaya

> cried out for two days before it died, left helpless on the ground by

> the keepers.

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> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/01/wzoo101.xml

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> http://groups.msn.com/TheElephantCommentator

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