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The only options from there, to maintain AZA accreditation, were to transfer the two remaining elephants, Billy and Tina, or add more elephants to the small enclosure.

In its statement, the zoo reiterated that it evaluated all available options, including AZA accredited sanctuaries, as activists had been pushing for.

The zoo also said Mayor Karen Bass “inquired” about moving the elephants to a sanctuary, but that the decision was made at the recommendation of the AZA and its Elephant Species Survival Plan.

The chair of the AZA is the L.A.

The British-Israeli national was shot in the leg and hand when she was dragged from her home on Kinbutz Kfar Aza on 7 October.