Locate an Elephant

Alice is a female Asian elephant born in the wild in Asia around 1974 who was captured as a young calf and brought to the United States, where she has spent nearly her entire life in captivity at the ABQ BioPark. In the wild, elephants live in complex social groups and move freely across vast landscapes—yet Alice was taken from that world as a calf. Instead, she has spent decades in a barren, artificial enclosure spanning just a few acres, confined to a manufactured social grouping where the autonomy, stimulation, and complexity of elephant life cannot exist. Within this confined world, she has endured profound loss, including the deaths of her grandchildren. After a lifetime defined by confinement, loss, and the absence of choice, Alice has been denied the opportunity to live as an elephant—and deserves the chance to spend her remaining years in a sanctuary where she can finally experience autonomy, dignity, and peace.