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Cher helped rescue Kaavan, a 36-year-old elephant, from a zoo in Pakistan (Credit: Friends of Islamabad Zoo/Facebook)
The cameraman zooms in on the anxious elephant, who paces back and forth. However, the pachyderm s demeanor instantly calms down upon hearing a soothing ballad from Disney’s Cinderella, “A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes, sung to him by none other than American singer and actress Cher. The now-viral poignant video, published on YouTube on November 30, 2020, was the culmination of the pop singer and animal activist s four-year-long quest to save Kaavan, “The world s loneliest elephant.
Kaavan was just a year old when Sri Lankan officials gifted him to Pakistan in 1985. The now 36-year-old Asian elephant spent a large part of the next three decades shackled in chains in a confined space at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad, Pakistan. He was only brought out periodically to entertain zoo visitors by raising his trunk as a begging bowl when his mahout prodded
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Bua Noi in her cage at Pata Zoo in Bangkok (EPA)
Cher has launched a campaign to rehome a gorilla who lives in a cage above a shopping centre in Thailand.
Bua Noi, whose name means Little Lotus, has lived on top of the department store at Pata Zoo in Bangkok since 1990.
The gorilla – marketed as the country’s King Kong – has not had contact with another member of her species for more than 10 years, according to
The Sunday Times.
Cher, who recently helped liberate “the world’s loneliest elephant” in Pakistan, has joined campaigners in calling for Bua Noi and the other 300 animals that live at the zoo – which opened in 1982 – to be moved to sanctuaries.
Why North Korea’s Mount Kumgang resort will be ‘envied by the world’ Tourists on a trail at Mount Kumgang, in North Korea. Photo: AP
North Korea is not shy when it comes to hyperbole - its leaders are supreme , its missiles are massive and its mountains are the most intelligent, having the incredible ability to recognise and respond to significant events, such as when Glow was seen atop Jong Il Peak for half an hour (.) when the nation was shocked by the news of the leader s demise , in 2011, according to the state-owned Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).
Overstatement also accompanies recent reports about Mount Kumgang, a North Korean tourist destination that once symbolised rapprochement between North and South Korea but will now be unilaterally developed into a cultural resort envied by the world .
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After saving Kaavan, “the world’s loneliest elephant,” Cher has set her sights on saving another animal. Bua Noi, a gorilla, has spent almost all of her life in a cage in a Bangkok shopping mall.
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A resident at Pata Zoo, Bua Noi has been in the cage at the zoo since 1988. Pata Zoo has been criticized by animal activists. Cher has written an open letter to the Thai Minister of Natural Resources Varawut Silpa-Archa requesting to transfer Bua Noi from her home.