Rose Avenue Rocks

Thanks to the grade 1 students at Rose Avenue Public School for their great artwork and postcard messages for Lucy the elephant. Here are some of the messages that the students wrote after learning about Lucy living alone in the Edmonton Zoo:

Lucy needs sun. Lucy needs water. Lucy needs grass. Lucy needs friends.

Lucy needs friends and a home. Lucy wants to go to a sanctuary.

Lucy needs friends and the sun and a mud pool and grass and trees.

Sanctuary. Yes.

The city of Toronto and the Toronto Zoo have recently decided that the elephants in our zoo should be moved to a sanctuary. Hopefully Edmonton decides the same for their lone elephant, who is about to face another winter in the cold and snow.

Learn more about Lucy the elephant at: http://www.savelucy.ca/. To book a workshop about elephants at your school, check out our Keep It Wild website at: http://www.keepitwildeducation.com/

Corky in Captivity

Corky is a female orca who has lived in captivity longer than any other orca. She was captured at the age of four from the Pacific Ocean near Vancouver Island. Corky has spent more than 40 years in captivity. During that time she has given birth seven times, but all of her calves died. In captivity, Corky doesn't have the freedom to hunt or to swim in the ocean.

If Corky had been allowed to live a normal life, she would have stayed with her family, hunted cooperatively, and travelled up to 100 kms a day in the open ocean. Imagine what it would be like if Corky could be returned to her wild home, back to the ocean with her family.

Thanks to students at Downtown Alternative School in Toronto for encouraging Sea World to consider a more natural habitat for Corky.

En Français

Palmerston's Grade 2 French Immersion class did a great job writing letters to the Morelia Zoo on behalf of Yupi. Here are some of their thoughts:

"Je pense que Yupi doit avoir de la neige, de l'eau froid avec de la glace et les phoques pour manger. Peut-etre pour un jouet tu peux donner Yupi des jouets de chien. Pour que ce soit froid, tu peux mettre de la climatisation dans sa cage."

"Je pense que ton zoo n'est pas une bonne place pour un ours polaire. C'est chaud en Mexique, et un ours polaire a besoin le froid. Mettez de la climatisation dans sa chambre pour se froidir. Yupi beson le l'eau salée pour nager."

"Je pense que Yupi n'est pas content avec son environment. Je pense qu'elle doit avoic une plus grande cage.Aussi, sa cage doit être plus froide. Elle devrait avoir de la vraie neige. Son eau devrait être froide aussi. Je pense qu'elle doit vivre avec les autres ours en Ontario."

"Je pense que ton zoo n'est pas une bonne place pour un ours polaire. C'est trop chaud."

Thanks for your great work helping wild animals in captivity! Hopefully the Mexican Zoo listens, and starts to improve the conditions of Yupi's captivity, or considers moving her to a more appropriate place.

Postcards from Parkdale

Check out these amazing postcards made by grade 1 students at Parkdale PS. They took part in a Keep It Wild workshop this past spring, and joined the campaign to help Lucy the Elephant.


 


 Here are some of the things the students wrote in their campaign postcards:

"Lucy needs a home and a bigger place to live and eat and she needs a family." - Katelyn

"Lucy needs more elephants to play with."  -Nyima

"Lucy needs a family because she looks sad and she needs more space." - Carlos

"Lucy needs a family because she looks alone. I think you have to find her family." - Riya

"Lucy needs more space and a warmer place like Asia. Lucy needs a family." - Rahul

"Can you help Lucy? Lucy needs a home that is bigger and warmer." - David

Way to go Parkdale! Thanks for your taking the time to draw and write postcards to help Lucy. If your class takes part in a campaign to help wild animals, make sure to let us know, and we'll post it on the blog.