{"id":1523,"date":"2015-12-20T14:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2015-12-20T14:12:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T22:12:18","slug":"kaavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/2015\/12\/kaavan\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Kaavan the Elephant in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I just wrote to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capital Development Authority (CDA)<\/strong>: chairman@cda.gov.pk<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan Prime Minister\u2019s office<\/strong>: betterpakistan@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan Embassy in the USA<\/strong>: info@embassyofpakistanusa.org<\/p>\n<p><em>After living in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animalsandnature\/free-kaavan-the-sick-zoo-elephant\/\">solitary confinement for 28 years in the Islamabad Zoo<\/a>, <\/em>Kaavan<em> the elephant is now suffering from a range of health issues \u2013 both mental and physical. The zoo claims he is fine and happy in his barren enclosure &#8211; which is impossible. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/animalsandnature\/free-kaavan-the-sick-zoo-elephant\/\">And the evidence shows<\/a>, he&#8217;s in pain, he&#8217;s in mental torture, and this has got to stop. Gangrene and neglect will soon take his life. In the wild, elephants can roam up to 30 miles a day. They are extremely emotional and social animals that form strong bonds with other elephants and spend most of their life in family herds. Come on, Pakistan &#8211; you are better than this. There are elephant sanctuaries that can give <\/em>Kaavan<em> the life he deserves. Show mercy, show compassion, be humane: release this elephant immediately to a sanctuary.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please write them too, in your own words. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/help-free-kaavan-the-elephant-from-28-years-of-solitary-confinement\">sign the Change.org petition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I just wrote to: Capital Development Authority (CDA): chairman@cda.gov.pk Pakistan Prime Minister\u2019s office: betterpakistan@gmail.com Pakistan Embassy in the USA: info@embassyofpakistanusa.org After living in solitary confinement for 28 years in the Islamabad Zoo, Kaavan the elephant is now suffering from a range of health issues \u2013 both mental and physical. The zoo claims he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting-people-a-community-a-cause"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3fFJB-kaavan","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotecommunications.com\/coyoteblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}