'Life that they deserve': why Australia's elephants are moving out of city zoos

Long-term plans to move the animals to much larger parks are coming to fruition but concerns remain about captivity and breedingSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton's free Clear Air newsletter hereAfter Tricia died, Perth Zoo's last remaining female elephant, Permai, became withdrawn. "She lost her matriarch ? that was her whole world," says Jack Lemon, the zoo's acting director of life sciences, of the once cheeky and affectionate elephant."Elephants need the company of other elephants, and we just don't have the space here to accommodate a herd structure."Sign up to get climate and environment editor Adam Morton's Clear Air column as a free newsletter Continue reading...