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]]> Three American zoos have beaten a legal bid to block them moving 18 elephants out of drought-striken Swaziland,

Incensed animal rights activists condemn what they call a  cruel, purely money-making operation.

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The audacious, secret operation involves sedating three elephant bulls and 15 cows, crating them and hoisting  them aboard a cargo plane in Swaziland.

The elephants will be split among zoos in Dallas, Kansas and Nebraska.

They’ll be exhibited and used for breeding purposes.

Conservation group Friends of Animals say they were due to argue against transferring what they’re calling the stolen 18 in a US federal court next Thursday.

They failed to get an emergency injunction to stop the elephants 15 000 km  move from the wild into captivity.

 

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