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VELVET REVOLVER guitarist SLASH, who has visited zoos around the world while on tour, Tuesday lent his backing to the under-construction Pachyderm Forest at the Los Angeles Zoo.

The $42 million project has reinvigorated a long-standing dispute over whether elephants should be kept in relatively small enclosures and whether it is fiscally responsible to spend so much on an animal habitat.

Slash, formerly of GUNS N' ROSES, and his family toured the habitat Sunday. The Pachyderm Forest is designed to house up to five adult Asian elephants and three of their offspring, with more than 3 1/2 acres for the elephants to roam around, plus two pools and a waterfall on the six-acre site.

"It's really beautiful," Slash said. "It's really well done. It gives the elephants an amazing amount of room to move around. I'm a huge advocate of this particular exhibit."

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