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Billy and Tina's transfer to Tulsa Zoo had sparked lawsuit and celebrity outrage, with calls for sanctuary over captivity.
Tulsa Zoo officials have spoken for the first time since the arrival of two elephants, Billy and Tina, who were recently transferred from the Los Angeles Zoo. T ...
The Colorado Supreme Court did not hear from the elephants directly. They heard from the Nonhuman Rights Project, which filed a habeas corpus petition on behalf of the pachyderms, arguing that ...
The move came “under cover of darkness,” said Jake Davis, an attorney for the Nonhuman Rights Project. Davis said he received reports that the Asian elephants were transferred out about 1:30 a ...
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 a pending lawsuit seeking to have them ...
On Friday, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a separate lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stop the move. Visited by nearly 1.8 million people a year, the zoo is owned by the City of ...