Cher turns attention to mall gorilla after freeing ‘world’s loneliest elephant’
Singer calls for release of Bua Noi, who has spent almost all her life at zoo in Bangkok shopping centre
After freeing the “world’s loneliest elephant” from a life of misery in a Pakistani zoo, the singer Cher has turned her attention to the plight of another animal: a gorilla who has spent the last three decades at the top of a Bangkok shopping mall.
Bua Noi was brought to Thailand in 1988, and has spent almost all her life in an enclosure at Pata zoo, a private zoo that has long been criticised by animal welfare campaigners.