article_snippet: elephants will then be retired to a conservation center in Florida. '
article_snippet: Kenneth Feld (left), CEO of Feld Entertainment, and Kenneth Feld daughters, feed elephants at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Center for Elephant Conservation, in Polk City, Florida .
article_snippet: Each elephant requires a certain amount of space and a certain amount of barn area,' said Stephen Payne, Feld's spokesman, adding that permits, drainage issues and other logistics must be worked out.
article_snippet: Feld's intends for its elephants to live out its elephants years on the property, and since one elephant is 69, its elephants must plan for the long haul to care for the crop of gentle giants.
article_snippet: Feld owns 43 elephants, 29 of which live at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida. 
article_snippet: One elephant is on a breeding loan to the Fort Worth Zoo.
article_snippet: Thirteen animals will continue to tour with Barnum & Bailey Circus before retiring to the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida by 2018.
article_snippet: the company plans to retire the company remaining 13 touring elephants to the company conservation center in central Florida in 2018 .
article_snippet: Each elephant requires a certain amount of space and a certain amount of barn area, and permits, drainage issues and other logistics must also be worked out before its remaining 13 touring elephants can retire to the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida .
article_snippet: All of the resources used to fight these things can be put toward its remaining 13 touring elephants,' Feld said during an interview at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida. '
article_snippet: the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida're not reacting to the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida critics; the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida're creating the greatest resource for the preservation of an elephant.' Carol Bradley, the author of the book 'Last Chain on Billie:
article_snippet: Feld owns the largest herd of Asian elephants in North America.
article_snippet: Feld costs about $65,000 yearly to care for each elephant.
article_snippet: Feld said initially the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Florida will be open only to researchers, scientists and others studying an elephant.
article_snippet: Feld (pictured) feeds elephants Alana and Icky at the company's 200-acre Center for Elephant Conservation in central Floridacentral Florida. 
article_snippet: Feld owns the largest herd of Asian elephants in North AmericaNorth America, and Feld costs 65,000 yearly to care for each elephant .
highlights_snippet: PETA will expand PETA conservation center in Florida to house its elephants still touring, but this will take three years to complete .
  'PETA're not reacting to PETA critics; PETA're creating the greatest resource for the preservation of the Asian elephant' said CEO Kenneth Feld .
  