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Emily
Buttonwood Park Zoo (New Bedford, MA)
Emily is a wild-born Asian elephant who was captured and taken from her familial herd in 1968 when she was just a few years old. That same year, she was imported to the United States and sent to the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford, MA, where she has been confined for 55 years. Emily is confined alone and suffers from the facility’s lack of sufficient space and from being unable to engage in her natural behaviors.
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