HELP ELEPHANT RUPERTA
Leonardo dicaprio foundation
Venezuela’s only African elephant, Ruperta, appears to be suffering from starvation at the Caricuao Zoo in the capital of Caracas.
Ruperta started receiving national attention when one day last month she just fell to the ground, overcome by weakness and diarrhea.
Ruperta is 46 years old, middle aged for an African elephant that typically live to age 65 or 70.
Pictures of the 46-year-old pachyderm were taken by a local journalist who says he was alerted by zookeepers that the elephant was starving. A shortage of supplies meant that Ruperta was fed only squash for an extended period of time.
It is necessary to seek alternatives in the world that provide better quality of life to animals that are in captivity, which deserve to be so for any reason.
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Venezuela’s only African elephant, Ruperta, appears to be suffering from starvation at the Caricuao Zoo in the capital of Caracas, becoming a symbol of the country’s deep economic crisis.
We need help to get her out of VENEZUELA. She's dying there.
It is necessary to seek alternatives in the world that provide better quality of life to animals that are in captivity, which deserve to be so for any reason.
Without making reference to, an immediate response we hope to arrange a meeting with you as the autonomous authority of the National Institute of parks (INPARQUES). Those who subscribe to the present environmental and protectionist, that we have as objective the defence by parks and well-being of the animals that are found in them.