{"id":25599,"date":"2020-12-11T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/11\/cher-mall-gorilla-world-loneliest-elephant-bua-noi-bangkok"},"modified":"2020-12-11T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:26:16","slug":"cher-turns-attention-to-mall-gorilla-after-freeing-worlds-loneliest-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25599","title":{"rendered":"Cher turns attention to mall gorilla after freeing &#8216;world&#8217;s loneliest elephant&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer calls for release of Bua Noi, who has spent almost all her life at zoo in Bangkok shopping centre<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/30\/cher-greets-worlds-loneliest-elephant-in-cambodia\">freeing the \u201cworld\u2019s loneliest elephant\u201d<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2010\/sep\/10\/bangkok-zoo-animal-cruelty-thailand\">long been criticised<\/a> by animal welfare campaigners.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/11\/cher-mall-gorilla-world-loneliest-elephant-bua-noi-bangkok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer calls for release of Bua Noi, who has spent almost all her life at zoo in Bangkok shopping centreAfter freeing the \u201cworld\u2019s loneliest elephant\u201d from a life of misery in a Pakistani zoo, the singer Cher has turned her attention to the plight of a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,1425,71,93,42,683],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-cher","category-culture","category-thailand","category-world-news","category-zoos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25600,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25599\/revisions\/25600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}