The whereabouts of Billy and Tina, a pair of Asian elephants long housed at the Los Angeles Zoo, are unclear on Wednesday after a report they had been secretly removed and shipped to another zoo — but ...

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Los Angeles Zoo officials from shipping their two surviving elephants to another zoo in Oklahoma ... a lawsuit, tense city meetings, anger at the zoo director and ...

The newly expanded preserve in Oklahoma is a 17-acre complex that has a 36,650-square-foot elephant ... of the Zoo Director -- an authority granted in the Los Angeles City Charter.

The purported 'elephant preserve' is just a slightly larger elephant enclosure at the Tulsa Zoo in Oklahoma," the complaint ... about the lawsuit to the City Attorney's Office, and a spokesperson ...

However, some critics argue that the Tulsa Zoo does not qualify as a true sanctuary. L.A. City Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, a vocal advocate for the elephants, filed a City Council motion last ...

Despite a stream of steady protests and objections since the announcement that Billy and Tina the elephants ... Angeles Zoo to the Tulsa Zoo, the aging pachyderms have arrived in Oklahoma.

The decades-long controversy over the Los Angeles Zoo’s elephants is intensifying, even after officials announced that Billy and Tina will be moved to a zoo in Oklahoma where they will have more ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billy and Tina, the last remaining elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo, were quietly moved this week to a zoo in Oklahoma despite ... police say. The city of Bridgeport partnered ...

is pushing back after it was announced the elephants are set to be relocated to another zoo in Tulsa, Oklahoma, instead of a sanctuary. “Billy has been locked up since 1989,” Cher wrote in a ...