Los Angeles Residents by 3-to-1 Majority Want LA Zoo's New Elephant Habitat Completed

Los Angeles, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) January 26, 2009 -- Los Angeles city-limits association by an cutting 3-to-1 majority ambition the Los Angeles Zoo to abide to aggrandize and advancement its affliction for Asian elephants by commutual the new Pachyderm Forest rather than awkward construction, according to after-effects from an absolute polling firm, Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates (FMM&A), appear today.

Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association

The L.A. Zoo has gone to abundant lengths to architecture a accessible home for Billy and the added elephants it hopes to acquire. Los Angeles association are aflame about the Pachyderm Forest and are authoritative it bright they ambition this abode completed Not alone will it accommodate Billy with a ample active across area he will accept exceptional, accommodating care, but our new abode will accomplish Los Angeles a all-around baton in educating our next bearing of conservationists on the dangers these arresting animals face. No one can out-love us if it comes to elephants The albatross experts are the zookeepers and veterinarians at the Los Angeles Zoo, who eat beddy-bye and breathe top standards for abominable affliction and welfare. These are the absolute heroes, who plan harder every day demography affliction of Billy and the added animals. These poll numbers appearance all-embracing accessible abutment for the LA Zoo I've formed for abounding issues and acclamation measures over the years, including abundant measures in the City of Los Angeles, and I can say after a agnosticism that if the voters were asked to abutment the achievement of the Pachyderm Forest on a acclamation initiative, it would win in a landslide. The results, which appear on the eve of a Los Angeles City Council vote Wednesday on whether to abide the project, appearance 67% of Los Angeles association accept the zoo should enhance albatross affliction by finishing the habitat. Pachyderm Forest will abode Billy and added Asian elephants, whose approaching on our planet abound added ambiguous anniversary year, in a abode about the admeasurement of Dodger Stadium. In an beat Saturday absolute that Pachyderm Forest should be built, the Los Angeles Times wrote: "The L.A. Zoo has gone to abundant lengths to architecture a accessible home for Billy and the added elephants it hopes to acquire."

"Los Angeles association are aflame about the Pachyderm Forest and are authoritative it bright they ambition this abode completed," said Connie Morgan, admiral of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. "Not alone will it accommodate Billy with a ample active across area he will accept exceptional, accommodating care, but our new abode will accomplish Los Angeles a all-around baton in educating our next bearing of conservationists on the dangers these arresting animals face."

Just 22% of the respondents agreed with the baby accumulation of anti-zoo activists who are aggravating to burden the board into abandoning its 13-2 vote approving the project. After accepting reminded that LA City voters anesthetized a Zoo Bond Measure, with the apprehension that the funds would be acclimated to improve, advancement and aggrandize abominable exhibits to actualize a added natural, accommodating and safe ambiance for all animals, including the elephants, 69% agreed that the City Council should abide a baby accumulation of abominable activists who seek to annul the will of LA voters. In addition, registered voters who were surveyed advantaged commutual the Pachyderm Forest by a 4-to-1 allowance over those who ambition to stop construction.

Tellingly, a whopping 93% of Los Angeles association surveyed said that it was important to them that Billy be cared for at a accommodating ability that is appropriate to accommodated the top accreditation standards set by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), which the Los Angeles Zoo is appropriate to do. None of the addition sites the anti-zoo activists adduce for Billy are appropriate to accommodated these standards of accountability, nor are their activities and veterinary accessories certified or monitored by an agnate able organization.

"No one can out-love us if it comes to elephants," said AZA President and CEO Jim Maddy. "The albatross experts are the zookeepers and veterinarians at the Los Angeles Zoo, who eat beddy-bye and breathe top standards for abominable affliction and welfare. These are the absolute heroes, who plan harder every day demography affliction of Billy and the added animals."

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Seven in 10 Los Angeles association agreed that closing the abode and shipment Billy to a abroad area will bankrupt bounded schoolchildren and their families of the befalling to apprentice about the blackmail of afterlife adverse Asian elephants today. Another 73% agreed the Los Angeles Zoo should body a new albatross abode as allotment of its role in teaching wildlife conservation, ancestry added Asian elephants and allowance anticipate the afterlife of the species. Nearly 7 in 10 Los Angeles association reacted abnormally to the hundreds of job losses that would aftereffect from shutting down the activity in the average of a abysmal bread-and-butter downturn. Through the activity of the activity as abounding as 1,000 architecture jobs could be absent if Pachyderm Forest is discontinued. Eight in 10 association accept a favorable consequence of the Los Angeles Zoo, with 3 out of 4 advertisement they visited the zoo aural the endure 5 years. Another 7 in 10 said they accept zoos play an important action and should abide open. Pachyderm Forest enjoys ample abutment by race, sex, age, assets and political affiliation.
The analysis was conducted in January by Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates and complex a adumbrative sample of 500 about called Los Angeles city-limits residents.

"These poll numbers appearance all-embracing accessible abutment for the LA Zoo," said John Fairbank, arch in Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates. "I've formed for abounding issues and acclamation measures over the years, including abundant measures in the City of Los Angeles, and I can say after a agnosticism that if the voters were asked to abutment the achievement of the Pachyderm Forest on a acclamation initiative, it would win in a landslide."

For advice on the Pachyderm Forest, amuse appointment www.billyshome.com

Contact:
   
Laura Stegman
Laura Segal Stegman Public Relations, LLC
310-470-6321 (office)
310-991-2835 (cell)

Steve Feldman
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
301-562-0777 ext. 252 (office)
202-271-0722 (cell)

Source: Greater Los Angeles Zoo Assn., Association of Zoos and Aquariums