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Guest writer Joyce Rowley wonders why the public is being kept out of the loop with the proposed privatization of the Buttonwood Park Zoo.

Buttonwood Park Zoo Director Keith Lovett has issued a response to the lawsuit filed against the city over possession of its Asian elephants, Ruth and Emily.

The Friends of Ruth and Emily organization has filed an Endangered Species Act lawsuit against the City of New Bedford, seeking to have the two elephants removed from the Buttonwood Park Zoo.