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== Health concerns == | == Health concerns == | ||
Lucy’s health has been a topic of concern. | Lucy’s health has been a topic of concern. Like all zoo elephants lucy has the “captive” usual ailments she sways in mental breakdown (sterotypical behaviour) , Lucy’s staff records detail daily infections, many foot abscesses , lucy suffers comics from a inadequate poor diet, and many many more. All can be attributed to the fact that Lucy has no habitat and EVZ have refused the help and advice of World leading elephant experts for decades. | ||
In | In May 2023 the Alberta Health & Safety department found lung damaging silica sand in Lucy’s barn. The zoo staff had bought lung disease toxins into Lucy’s unventilated chamber where she spends over 70% of every day. The air is so unsafe the zoo staff must wear masks or risk lung disease themselves and the report confirms the elephant is also at risk of lung damage. | ||
It’s is unlawful by CAZA regulations and Alberta Zoo standards to house any government owned animal without adequate safe environment safe ventilation yet lucy has never had it. These poor conditions world experts have stated have a detrimental effect upon Lucy’s health and well-being. | |||
Lucy also has arthritis. | Lucy the EVZ zoo say cannot travel to a sanctuary she will die although there is no evidence to prove this theory. | ||
The leading world experts such as Lek Chailert of the renowned Elephant Nature Park Thailand say moving lucy is not a risk compared with what Lucy is already suffering. | |||
Two expert vets is 2022 examined lucy and agreed that the poor EVZ husbandry and conditions directly affect Lucy’s health and the best way forward to give Lucy a safe environment would be to move her to the Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary. | |||
The EVZ claims that lucy is a bonded people elephant yet cannot provide any evidence and the EVZ staff have changed over the decades. | |||
In reference to the Margaret Whittaker Court Expert witness testimony there are details of Lucy’s aggressive behaviour to EVZ staff. | |||
She is now breathing solely through her mouth due to a narrowing of the nasal passage, a condition first reported in 2009.<sup>[citation needed]</sup> Her breathing problems have worsened over time, leading to very severe hypoxemia and hypercapnia — low oxygen and high carbon dioxide levels in her blood and tissues. The root cause of this condition remains undiagnosed. | |||
The EvZ staff first noticed an issue with Lucy’s trunk becoming full of mucus in 2004 and it is noted in 2005 Edmonton council documents detail that Lucy could safely travel to another location. | |||
The only attemp to find out the root cause was flawed - the vet who tried to use a scope inside Lucy’s trunk bought a scope that was to short and no other attempt was ever made. | |||
When Lucy was tested in 2022 the two vets Dr London and Ingo Schmidhinger determined Lucy’s breathing was satisfactory enough to safely transport her to a sanctuary. | |||
Lucy has learned to breathe through her mouth in a similar way to wild elephants who have lost their trunks in snares learn to breathe and drink in a different way to other elephants. | |||
In addition to her respiratory issues, Lucy also has a large uterine tumor (leiomyoma), which is common in female elephants who have never given birth. | |||
EVZ did not give Lucy medical treatment for this tumour for 10 years after it was found. | |||
Only when Dr London examined lucy was medicine given to EVZ who allowed lucy to receive the vital treatment. | |||
Lucy also has arthritis due to the lack of freedom to move. | |||
It was recorded that lucy suffered frostbite when EVZ first had her and despite Lucy suffering from arthritis to the concern of global citizens the EVZ still refuse to put a warm winter coat on lucy. Lucy can be seen in Arctic minus 20 temperatures trying to slowly manage walking on snow and ice. It is reported that lucy doesn’t like the freezing weather. | |||
Leading elephant experts say that for Any elephant to stay fit both in body and mind they must be free to roam long fresh mixed foliage for 16 hours daily in a warm climate on a soft surface with free access to water to drink and bathe. | |||
Lucy has never had that at EVZ her poor condition is say some vets and World elephant experts down to poor conditions at EVZ. | |||
Despite millions of dollars in government funding the small barn and yard that lucy lives in at EVZ has never been improved or maintained to lawful standards. Lucy has been seen swaying in the yard and barn in mental breakdown and was filmed in sterotypical behaviour by the CBC fifth documentary The Elephant In the Room. | |||
The documentary program also points out the many failings of the long term zoo vet Dr Oosterhuis who gave an incorrect assessment of the Alaska zoo elephant called Maggie and who gave exactly the same assessment of Lucy. | |||
The Jane Goodall Institute took the side of Dr Oosterhuis it is not known why Dr Goodall a primatologist had a say in an elephant consultation and why Dr Goodall did not consult with the many leading world elephant sanctuary vets who detailed Lucy’s suffering for decades and who have said that lucy can safely travel. | |||
It is noted that an accepted World leader in Elephant care is Lek Chailert who travelled to Edmonton in 2023. The Edmonton council refused to meet with Lek and the EVZ locked lucy out of sight they also refused to talk to Lek Chailert. | |||
Lek Chailert is world famous for having rescued over 200 elephants from the worst suffering imaginable. From elephant logging camps, from tourist camps and elephants that were chained and used for begging. Some of these elephants were 90 years of age. | |||
Not one elephant died whilst travelling. | |||
Lek Chailert advises world leaders on elephant care and speaks at the United Nations. Hilary Clinton honoured Lek with an award. | |||
Lek Chailert founded the hugely admired Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. | |||
== Advocacy == | == Advocacy == | ||