Celebrating Elephants Lecture and Silent Auction

• Date:  Friday, May 09
• Time:  06:00 PM

6:00pm-9:00pm

This year’s Annual Celebrating Elephants lecture will feature Pat Derby, co-founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) and leader in animal welfare and rescue.

Since 1984, PAWS has been at the forefront of efforts to rescue and provide appropriate, humane sanctuary for animals who have been the victims of the exotic and performing animal trades. PAWS is home to seven Asian and 5 African Elephants. The elephant habitat there provides the elephants with hundreds of acres of varied natural terrain to roam, lakes to bathe in, and state-of-the-art elephant barns equipped with heated stalls and therapeutic Jacuzzis.

Pat Derby has much news to share with us! Just in the last year, four new elephants now call PAWS home, including Maggie the African Elephant who lived most of her life alone in Alaska.

The lecture event will be held in the Snow Building at the Oakland Zoo. A minimum donation of $20 is requested. Space is limited, so please arrive on time. For more details, please call (510) 632-9525.

All proceeds from the night lecture go to elephant research and conservation.