Bob Barker funds $880,000 elephant flight to CA

[Kadie]

Bob Barker funds $880,000 elephant flight to CA
By SANDY COHEN | Associated Press – 5 hrs ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three elephants will travel from the Toronto Zoo to a sanctuary in California aboard a private plane thanks to longtime animal activist Bob Barker.

The 88-year-old TV icon offered to fund the $880,000 flight after learning that one of the elephants wasn't well enough to withstand the long trip by truck, Barker spokesman Henri Bollinger said Friday.

He said the Toronto Zoo agreed to move Thika, Iringa and Toka to the Performing Animals Welfare Society elephant sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif., in the Sierra foothills southeast of Sacramento, but that one of the animals suffers from "a serious foot problem."

Barker said the elephants "have suffered so much for so long and now they have an opportunity to live the rest of their lives at what has been described as 'elephant paradise.' To think that one of them might not survive the trip in a truck touched my heart and purse strings."

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[Kingofalldems]

1. Bob Barker is a fine human being.

[MoonRiver]

2. I love Bob Barker!

He has also been a major funder for Sea Shepherd. God bless him.

[Lawlbringer]

3. Come on down? n/t

[Ilsa]

4. What a sweetheart! nt

[montanacowboy]

5. Bob Barker, a Hero to all animals

if only we had Bob Barker's running our Senate and House of Reps what a wonderful country we would have.

I always thought If I had scads of $$ I would give it to help the animals of the earth which we as humans have destroyed.

[MoonRiver]

6. I agree montanacowboy.

We OWE these creatures.

[montanacowboy]

8. Thank you!

someday we will wake up and find they are all gone and future generations will not even know, outside of a zoo, what they were. Such a sad commentary on the human race.

[MoonRiver]

12. I feel that the earth was just fine until humans arrived.

Now we seem hell bent to destroy our environment and everything living within it, including ourselves.

[jberryhill]

7. Why not do it the easy way?

[CrawlingChaos]

9. I wish we could make those disgusting Trump sons pay for it

Quite a study in contrasts this month in the news vis a vis elephants - Bob Barker and the Trump hellspawn.

Kudos to Mr. Barker. It would be great if the publicity from this gesture made people stop and think about unconscionable animal exploitation and how to put an end to it. I hope the elephants enjoy every minute of "elephant paradise"!

[longship]

10. DUMBO! Come on DOWN!

Good for him!

Make sure you spay or neuter your pets.

[BlueIris]

11. Damn. Almost a million dollars to help some elephants.

That is awesome.

[Raine]

13. HURRAY for Bob Barker, I LOVE him!