Ringling Brothers Elephant Sanctuary

In 1995, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus opened the facility for the breeding, Research, and retirement of its Asian Elephant Herd, located on 200 acres located in Polk County (central Florida), between Tampa and Orlando. Staff: Gary Jacobson, Director, Jim Williams, Operations Manager. 2006-09-05: "Ringling Bros.

The Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation is no more, and most of the elephants held there will be sent to an accredited facility to recover. About 30 Asian elephants previously used in Ringling Bros.

and Barnum & Bailey Circus performances will move to the White Oak Conservation Center in Florida next year. The Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) breeding farm and retirement facility for elephants in Polk City, Florida, opened in 1995. The CEC is solely sponsored by Feld Entertainment, the holding company which operated the Ringling Bros.

and Barnum & Bailey Circus [1] from the 1960s until 2017. That is where some of the elephants from Ringling's traveling circus get to kick back and enjoy a slower pace. "We started with somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe eight or nine elephants.

Former circus elephants get spacious new home in Florida Thirty-five members of the largest Asian elephant herd in the western hemisphere are being shipped to a lush new habitat at Florida's White. White Oak Conservation in Yulee is building a 2,500-acre habitat for about 30 elephants. The center also bought Feld Entertainment's elephant facility in Polk City.

The Ringling Bros. Center for Elephant Conservation used to be a retirement home, but now the Florida sanctuary is a conservation hub and breeding ground. A group of 35 elephants, formerly part of the Ringling Bros Circus, have been given a new lease on life in a verdant habitat at Florida's White Oak Conservation Center.

These Asian elephants, the largest group in the Western hemisphere, were previously subjected to harsh conditions and forced to perform in the circus. The first 12 young elephants were transferred to the conservation center. The elephants will now settle into the Ringling Bros.

Center for Elephant Conservation, a sanctuary in this city just a few miles from Disney World and tucked behind cattle ranches and orange.