With interviews from animal-welfare experts and zookeepers-turned-advocates, the film considers a future when the practice of ...

a 49-year-old elephant being held at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. As we see in the documentary Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants, while several people have called for Lucy to be moved to a sanctuary, in ...

(My cat’s name, incidentally, happens to be Lucy.) The film centres on the lone elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. Lucy was born in Sri Lanka in 1975 and has lived at the zoo since she was two.

Then someone sent her a picture of Lucy, a 49-year-old Asian elephant at the Edmonton Valley Zoo. The photo showed the elephant in a concrete enclosure with painted palm trees.