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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Visitors to the Woodland Park Zoo’s elephant exhibit know Chai and Bamboo are social animals. Over the years, we have watched them play together and we grieved with them when Chai’s calf ...

Watoto, who was the only African elephant at Woodland Park Zoo, was born in Kenya between 1969 and 1970, and joined the Zoo's elephant herd in 1971 as an orphan from the wild.

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 ...

SEATTLE -- Woodland Park Zoo has been slammed by animal rights groups for years who say its elephants belong in a sanctuary. Those calls only grew louder with the death of Watoto two months ago.