African Lion Safari has a prolific herd of Asian elephants (18 members), Zoo de Granby has a male and two female African elephants, Parc Safari has a male and a female African elephant, and Edmonton Valley Zoo has Lucy, their singleton Asian elephant.
Yes a decent few, but only one active breeding group.
Nope, ALS has not had any African Elephants since 1989. You might be confusing it with Parc Safari Hemmingford, which keeps a pair of African Elephants.
Must of been my mistake, I thought I saw them there on a visit in 2017 but after researching it a bit it seems I was mistaken.
Don't entirely blame you for the mix-up. I mean, a place called African Lion Safari would feel like a facility to house African elephants.
It is weird that Toronto Zoo also supports the Jane Goodall Act since the Act asks to ban the holding of not only Elephants, but also Great Apes. Toronto Zoo has two Great Apes species, and the new outdoor enclosure for Orangutans has just been completed not long, if the Zoo agrees to phase out Orangutans, then the millions of dollars spent on that enclosure becomes naught.
Lucy is the last elephant of Edmonton Zoo, once she passes the Zoo will no longer hold any elephant. Granby Zoo also has plan to phase out the elephants. So the holders of elephants in Canada will decrease to just two in the future.
I definitively hope to see some great fantastic indoor exhibits like what Zurich Zoo has done to occur in Toronto Zoo. But unfortunately, Toronto City Government is not as supportive as Zurich City Government of zoo funding. Toronto Zoo definitively has land to build a giant indoor enclosure for elephants, but doesn't have enough money to do so. The general public opinion in Toronto is pretty leftist, many people consider zoos as "jail of animals"
The act doesn't ban great apes- it just adds additional legal protections. Toronto, Calgary, and Granby Zoos have all been adamant that their great ape programs will not be affected.
Maya's mother is 0.1 Emily at African Lion Safari
I am aware. I just copied the list from the population thread and added the two new calves. Didn't see the need to make a ton of edits to it lol