by: Elephants in Japan, Zoocheck
target: Nomi Ishikawa Zoo, JAZA, Minister of Environment Masaharu Nakagawa, Mayor of Ishikawa and city council
105,962 SUPPORTERS
110,000 GOAL
Sunny the elephant has been TOTALLY ALONE in a concrete prison for 29 years. When it’s cold and snowy, she is forced to spend most days locked in her tiny indoor cell at the Nomi Ishikawa Zoo in Japan.
With nothing else to do, Sunny tries desperately to cope with her boredom and loneliness—by exploring the walls with her trunk. The heartbreaking evidence: Dark marks all over the walls of her tiny cell—as far as her trunk can reach—from Sunny doing this over and over, alone, bored and trapped, day in and day out … for 29 years and counting.
It is cruel and unnatural to make Sunny spend her life in solitary confinement in such a tiny living space. It’s an undeserved punishment for…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Inexcusable. What crime has Sunny committed?
The crime of not being human.
I don’t know why people insist upon treating animals cruelly like this, despite information out there about the damage it does. Solitary confinement of social animals, concrete floors damaging limbs and joints, lack of stimulation. Why won’t people get it?