US singer Cher has taken to Twitter to expose the plight of a Thai gorilla known as Bua Noi, who has lived above a shopping mall for 30 years. With her mate having died several years ago, she is Thailand’s only gorilla. Cher’s mission to rehome Bua Noi comes just after her rescue of 36 year old Kaavan in Pakistan, dubbed “the world’s loneliest elephant.” The singer’s favourite charity Free the Wild managed to relocate Kaavan to a Cambodian sanctuary after he spent years living alone, in allegedly ‘less-than-satisfactory’ conditions, in a zoo in Islamabad.
With Kaavan safely taken care of, the plight of Bua Noi, living in Pata Zoo, on the top floor of a Bangkok shop mall, has captured the singer’s attention. The zoo has been in operation since the late 1980s and is home to various species of monkey, reptiles and birds, over 2 floors. It has been condemned by animal…
