CAZA Bans Elephant Rides

[TZFan]

The CAZA has banned members from offering elephant rides finally. Kind of a moot point since African Lion Safari voluntarily stopped offering the rides in 2019 after an incident and they were the last ones offering rides. Wonder why they wasted the time really? It's not like Edmonton, Parc Safari, Granby or African Lion Safari were doing it. Granby was already forbidden by the AZA. Maybe that time would have been better spent discussing something that would have an actual impact.

Elephant rides banned at accredited zoos in Canada

 

[birdsandbats]

The CAZA has banned members from offering elephant rides finally. Kind of a moot point since African Lion Safari voluntarily stopped offering the rides in 2019 after an incident and they were the last ones offering rides. Wonder why they wasted the time really? It's not like Edmonton, Parc Safari, Granby or African Lion Safari were doing it. Granby was already forbidden by the AZA. Maybe that time would have been better spent discussing something that would have an actual impact.

Elephant rides banned at accredited zoos in Canada

So you think this is a good decision? May I ask why?

 

[Jurek7]

I think it is baseless and ultimately un-educative move - a sort of fakely glorifying elephants in a country which knows little about the topic. Anyway, elephants have been commonly ridden throughout South Asia since millenia.

Imagine that India banned skiing as potentially dangerous - of course Canadians would make jokes about that.

By the way, zoos seem to do a poor job about educating people about exotic domestic animals. Elephants, donkeys, camels, reindeer, dromedaries, yaks, llamas, alpacas, tilapia or pangasius are regular farm animals, but this aspect is not mentioned or not developed in zoos.

 

[TZFan]

@birdsandbats, I honestly don't care if they do it or not. I don't think there is any point because no one in Canada is offering the rides or proposing resuming rides. They could have spent that time researching the issue, and debating it, doing almost anything else and the time would have been better spent. If they wanted to debate the issue and its validity I think the time to do that was while it was actually an issue in Canada. Its not and thus pointless.