What You Can Do
Notify your local AZA-accredited zoo that you won’t visit until
elephant captures for U.S. zoos are halted, and please contact the
AZA to urge officials to immediately implement a policy that forbids
future imports of wild elephants for U.S. zoos:
Syd Butler, Executive Director
American Zoo and Aquarium Association
8403 Colesville Rd.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-562-0777
301-562-0888 (fax)
Sbutler@aza.org
Please contact the zoos to express your outrage regarding their import
of wild African elephants from Swaziland:
Douglas Myers, Executive Director
San Diego Zoo
P.O. Box 120551
San Diego, CA 92112
619-231-1515
619-231-0249 (fax)
DMyers@sandiegozoo.org
C. Lex Salisbury, President and CEO
Lowry Park Zoological Garden
7530 North Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33604
813-935-8552
813-935-9486 (fax)
Lex.Salisbury@lowryparkzoo.org
Contact officials of Cargolux Airlines, the carrier that transported
the elephants, and ask them to extricate themselves from the wildlife
trade by enacting a policy against the shipment of wild animals.
Pierre Wesner, Vice President
Area Management, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Cargolux Airlines International S.A.
L-2990 Luxembourg
Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
(+352) 4211 3335/4211 3925
(+352) 4211 3692/4211 3337 (fax)
dceci@cargolux.com
Cargolux Airlines International S.A.
238 Lawrence Ave.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
650-225-0747
1-800-722-2023
650-225-0988 (fax)
sfo@cargolux.com
Contact Swaziland officials to express your outrage at their shameless
exploitation of their country’s precious wildlife. Ask them
to adopt a policy whereby its animals are protected in their natural
habitat and never sold to zoos (from the U.S., postage is 80¢;
from the U.K., postage is £1.05):
His Majesty King Mswati III
King of Swaziland
Lozitha Palace
Mbabane
Kingdom of Swaziland
011-26-8-518-4468 (fax)
His Excellency Dr. Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini
Prime Minister of Swaziland
Office of the Prime Minister
Capital Hill
P.O. Box 395
Mbabane
Swaziland
011-26-8-404-3943 (fax)
Stella Lukhele, Minister
Tourism, Environment & Communications
Government of Swaziland
P.O. Box 58
Mbabane
Swaziland
011-26-8-404-1719 (fax)
Ambassador Mary M. Kanya
Embassy of the Kingdom of Swaziland
1712 New Hampshire Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
202-234-5002
202-234-8254 (fax)
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