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USA Today
November 2, 2007
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ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s only elephant is getting a one-way ticket out of town, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force.
After a dispute that lasted months between those wanting Maggie to stay at the Alaska Zoo and those advocating for a warmer climate, the 25-year-old African elephant is heading to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in San Andreas, Calif.
The Air Force agreed to transport Maggie as part of a training mission after officials with PAWS and the zoo found out the elephant was too big for a commercial airline.
Maggie was to be loaded onto a C-17 cargo plane at Elmendorf Air Force Base yesterday and brought to Travis Air Force Base, where she will be trucked 85 miles to her new home.
At the sanctuary, Maggie will have 30 acres where she will live with nine other elephants.
November 2, 2007
Pg. 8
ANCHORAGE — Alaska’s only elephant is getting a one-way ticket out of town, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force.
After a dispute that lasted months between those wanting Maggie to stay at the Alaska Zoo and those advocating for a warmer climate, the 25-year-old African elephant is heading to the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) in San Andreas, Calif.
The Air Force agreed to transport Maggie as part of a training mission after officials with PAWS and the zoo found out the elephant was too big for a commercial airline.
Maggie was to be loaded onto a C-17 cargo plane at Elmendorf Air Force Base yesterday and brought to Travis Air Force Base, where she will be trucked 85 miles to her new home.
At the sanctuary, Maggie will have 30 acres where she will live with nine other elephants.