Transfer of elephants to Eram Zoo (Sri Lanka-Iran)
In 2013 we transported two Asian elephants from Pinnawala to Tehran Zoological Garden . It took 18 months to arrange the process and issuing documents. In these kinds of situations, all necessary facilities and equipment for crating, loading and unloading should be in place and readily available to minimize the time for loading and unloading, to ensure the animal‘s welfare, and to minimize the risk of unnecessary fear, injury, damage to health, suffering and cruel treatment. So we decided to do transportation in three phases; 1- From Pinnawala to Bandaranaike International Airport, 2- From Colombo Airport to IKA and 3- From IKA to Eram Zoo
