Los Angeles Zoo<\/a> on Saturday, August 13 and Sunday August 14, 2016, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weekend activities highlight the Zoo’s state-of-the-art Elephants of Asia exhibit\u00a0housing the zoo’s\u00a0three elephant residents and\u00a0showcasing how\u00a0they’re cared for. See lazoo.org<\/p>\nCalifornians have taken elephants relocated from zoos into care facilities. The state’s best known program is Performing Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) which has a facility called Ark 2000 in San Andreas. Eight\u00a0elephants living there have come from San Francisco Zoo, Alaska Zoo, San Jose’s Happy Hollow Zoo and several circuses. Visitors can book 1 and 2 day getaways to see the elephants, pawsweb.org<\/p>\n
On the horizon is Tembo Preserve (tembopreserve.org), a 4,900-acre preserve\u00a0in Tehama County.\u00a0The is the first of its kind in the world. A team of elephant care experts from the Oakland Zoo will manage the preserve and care for the elephants in a campus that includes eight square miles of open range land, ponds, hills, and state-of-the-art elephant shelters, supported by veterinary and research facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Elephant Day (August 12) is celebrated at the Los Angeles Zoo on Saturday, August 13 and Sunday August 14, 2016, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Weekend activities highlight the Zoo’s state-of-the-art Elephants of Asia exhibit\u00a0housing the zoo’s\u00a0three elephant residents and\u00a0showcasing how\u00a0they’re cared for. See lazoo.org Californians have taken elephants relocated from zoos into care […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22969"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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