{"id":5204,"date":"2023-09-03T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/?page_id=5204"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:06:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T09:06:50","slug":"elephant-free-uk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/elephant-free-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Elephant-Free UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 2023, our heart-wrenching short film \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G-U-pvTrPU0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enough is Enough<\/a>\u2019 reflects on the life and death of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/news\/pole-pole-remembered\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pole Pole<\/a>, the African elephant who was taken from the wild in Kenya as little more than an infant, and whose death in the Elephant House at London Zoo on 17 October 1983 at the tender age of 16 inspired the founding of \u2018ZooCheck\u2019, the charity that became Born Free, the following year.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, there were 20 zoos in the UK keeping around 50 elephants, of which 44 had been taken from the wild. Sadly, in spite of expert reports, campaigns, petitions and parliamentary debates, nothing much has changed. Today, there are still 48 elephants in nine zoos across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Captivity cannot possibly provide elephants with what they want or what they need. Zoos and other captive facilities cannot replicate the highly complex social and physical environment that elephants have evolved to live in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enough is enough. Born Free is calling for a phase out. We want an elephant-free UK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/support.bornfree.org.uk\/page\/136763\/petition\/1\">Sign the Petition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released in 2023, our heart-wrenching short film \u2018Enough is Enough\u2019 reflects on the life and death of Pole Pole, the African elephant who was taken from the wild in Kenya as little more than an infant, and whose death in the Elephant House at London Zoo on 17 October 1983 at the tender age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37532,"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5204\/revisions\/37532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bornfree.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}