Cher campaigning to rescue Thai gorilla 21/12/2020|3min
A lonely gorilla in a Bangkok zoo has become the latest focus of singer Cher and the charity she co-founded, Free the Wild, as they campaign to relocate the animal to live with other gorillas.
Bua Noi has lived at Pata Zoo for more than 30 years – arriving from a German zoo when she was about three years old.
Cher recently assisted with the relocation of an elephant from a zoo in Pakistan to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia - reuniting it with other elephants.
The zoo owner maintains Bua Noi is happy, health and well-cared for, however, the Thai government has previously told him to improve the conditions.
Cher s Mission To Free The World s Loneliest Animals Is Filling Me With Joy This Season December 18, 2020
At the tail end of a year filled with hardship and much uncertainty, I’m delighted to indulge if for but a moment in the kind of celebrity activism I wish we’d see more of. Giving a voice to those who cannot speak, the glorious “Goddess of Pop,” Cher, has made it her mission to ensure that the world’s loneliest animals don’t continue to suffer in silence. After freeing Kaavan the elephant from a miserable existence in isolation in Islamabad, she has turned her efforts to Bua Noi, a gorilla that has spent the last three decades in a shopping mall in Bangkok.
Excited Cher shares Kaavan s journey from trauma to playing with girls
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Excited Cher shares Kaavan s journey from trauma to playing with girls
(Web Desk) - American singer and actress Cher, who felt herself inapt prior to joining international uproar for releasing world’s loneliest elephant “Kaavan” in Islamabad Zoo, is now excited to find the mammoth “playing with girls.”
The world famed artist, who was pushed into action by many of her around four million Twitter followers, told in an interview that after having him rehomed in Cambodian sanctuary, she found the erstwhile traumatic monster looking and walking around.
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A gorilla named Bua Noi has been living in Thailand since 1988 and spent her life in an enclosure in Pata Zoo, a facility located above a mall in Bangkok through the help of the singer Cher.
The singer, Cher recently wrote to Thailand s environment minister, Varawut Silpa-Archa, wherein she expressed her concerns over the conditions of the gorilla. The enclosure is small, with little stimulation and inadequate access to the outdoors. Bua Noi has been caged at the top of Bangkok shopping mall for three decades already. Pata Zoo has long been criticized by animal welfare campaigners. Bua Noi s mate also died more than a decade ago.
(Photo : Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Singer/actress Cher campaigns for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at an early vote rally at a residential shopping center on October 24, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cher revealed that a fan tried to kill her nearly four decades ago while performing in a New York play in 1982.
Talking to The Guardian, Cher said this scary fan encounter happened as she entered the theater she was about to perform in.
Initially, she thought the man was simply going to shake her hand, but he grabbed her arm and put it behind her back. He started pushing me down the alleyway, and he said: If you make a sound, I ll kill you, narrated the goddess of pop.