'World's Loneliest Elephant' Moving To Sanctuary, With Help From Cher
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/27/93950...help-from-cher
Kaavan the elephant has been languishing in poor conditions in Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad since 1985, according tothe animal welfare group Four Paws International. He was brought there as a gift from Sri Lanka at 1 year old..On Sunday, Kaavan will move to an animal sanctuary in Cambodia, where he will be able to socialize with other elephants.
..."Transferring an adult elephant on a plane is something very, very rare," said Four Paws spokesperson Martin Bauer. Previous transfers he knows of have been much shorter distances between zoos in the U.S.
"An elephant transfer by plane on this scale I think has never happened before, so we are writing history here," he told NPR.
Or maybe not, but it's a good sound bite.