Today Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo announced they will be shutting down their elephant program, which means they will be sending their two remaining Asian elephants, 35 year old Chai and 47 year ...

Woodland Park Zoo, whose elephant program has come under stinging criticism from animal welfare activists, will end the program. "We remain committed to putting the welfare of our elephants first.

Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo intends to send its two remaining elephants to an accredited zoo to live in a larger social group. CEO Deborah Jensen said Wednesday that a plan to expand the Seattle ...

SEATTLE -- The Woodland Park Zoo announced on Wednesday it is ending its on-site elephant program. Zoo staff says two female Asian elephants, 47-year-old Bamboo and 35-year-old Chai, who currently ...

UPDATE 10:24 a.m., Dec. 3, 2014: Seattle City Council member Nick Licata responded to the editorial board's request for his position on whether Chai and Bamboo should be sent to a zoo or sanctuary ...

Lead elephant keeper Chuck Harke cleans the teeth of Bamboo, a 34-year-old Asian elephant, during her bath yesterday at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo.

After nearly a century, the elephant exhibit at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo could close. Zoo officials emphasize they have no plans to close the exhibit right now, but it is one of many options ...

Hansa was the first elephant born at the 100-year-old Woodland Park Zoo, which has no male elephants. The zoo’s remaining herd consists of Chai, 28; Bamboo, a 40-year-old Asian elephant; and ...

A California-based animal-rights group named In Defense of Animals recently released its “Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants” list for 2008, and Woodland Park Zoo is tied with Washington, D.C.’s ...

Woodland Park Zoo has truly been a regional zoo. People in Snohomish County as well as King County have been loyal visitors there for years. So when a 6-year old Asian elephant, Hansa, died at the ...