Why Is Cher Angry At This Bangkok Zoo?

Why Is Cher Angry At This Bangkok Zoo?

Today I’m heading across the charal prior River to the opposite side of Bangkok I’m staying over here in the calan road area and I’m heading to a place over here called the P mall I think it’s one of the oldest malls in Bangkok and from what I’ve read

In recent reviews a lot of it is closed people don’t seem to know whether it’s been renovated or whether it’s been closed down permanently but the reason why I’m going there is because on the rooftop there’s a zoo and this Zoo has been making news across the world for all the wrong

Reasons because apparently the animals that are kept in this Zoo the gorilla in particular are really not well looked after now this gorilla has been here for almost 40 years stuck in a cage a place in Germany has offered to rehome the gorilla but the owner apparently want

$700,000 the fate of this gorilla has made headlines and celebrities such a sure have commented and tried to highlight the terrible conditions that this gorilla finds itself In I’ve kind of found myself in a moral dilemma because I don’t really want want to give them any money if the animals are mistreated but at the same time if they are and I can show it then maybe it’ll stop other people from going who

Knows I can see the top of the mall up there P mall I think that’s it so it might be a bit upsetting this one I would like to think that I’ll go there and all the animals are being well looked after and they have space to roam

I’ve got a feeling that’s not going to be the case well this is the mall got see any signs for any Zoo oh in fact here we go C Zoo Entrance look at this absolutely amazing I don’t know anything about this little fell but I mean he’s absolutely covered in m and he’s got absolutely nothing in there at all The size this Prett thing see these really thin green things here that’s the Snake I’ve got admit so far I’m not really seeing too much like kind of neglect of the animals if I’ve not read about this place then I would have just thought of it as just like any other indoor Zoo check this dude out well we’ve come on to the actual roof to now I think this is the enclosure that upset a lot of people it’s really hot up here as you can imagine so it’s not going to be comfortable for the animals they’ve just got nothing they’re just literally empty

Pages then compare these to the ones we saw in non pen in the park look at these two beauties it’s just so bizarre having these animals out here on the rooftop hello hello Well I’m presuming that the gorilla is in here somewhere so I’m going to have a walk around see everything else and then uh finish up on the gorilla they’re just so hot I mean look at this one here is just panting like mad same with this bear cats oh blood down hello

You oh wow all right fellas a sted first well one thing there doesn’t appear to be any animals in here oh mon lizard what are you doing in here man you should be lump another one M up huge one well you know they’ve got a an old

Toilet and a bath to keep them amused get it give your little pokus you got of this so one of the security guys just came up to me and asked me if I had a YouTube channel I wasn’t even sure he was security to begin with I thought he was

Just genuinely wanted to know my channel but then I saw he got the uh name of the zoo on his shirt so I said oh no no it’s just for me I think he would have told me to stop filming if I have told him I

Got a YouTube channel in fact I’m pretty certain that’s what he would have done you come say hello hello no it’s just moving from corner to corner because there’s absolutely nothing in here to stimulate It good job the behind the cage it’s aggressive this one I got I miss these py here H little boy so yeah not much room couple of pigs hello at that to be little booger what hell some bacon on that this is what everyone is up about 40 years he’s been in

Here so that’s a zoo then is it as bad as what everyone makes it activate on the reviews on Google Maps well I’m not so sure it is a bit rund down and the animals have got literally nothing to keep them stimulated or a lot of them are just

Basically in a an empty cage which is not great now the gorilla this is the thing what upsets a lot of people he did have a lot of space but he’s by himself and he has been for 40 years and you think surely there has to be a better life for him than

That so I think if I’d not read any of the Google Maps reviews I would have probably still found it a bit upsetting I would love to think that at some point the gorilla is going to be moved somewhere where it has better quality of life but they are holding out for a

$700,000 uh fee for it to be removed so so I don’t think it’s going to happen anytime soon um sure’s put her name to it you know I’m sure she’s got a spare 700,000 if you cared that much but there we go so is it worth a visit should you go and

Pay the 200 bar to go and see the animals locked in cages on a rooftop in the blistering Sun I think I’m going to have to say no I don’t think you should support it I mean it was busy I went there for the magic show just starting as I

Arrived and it was it was full so they’re still making money but I’d like to think that uh there’s a better life for some of them animals

After spending a couple of weeks in the coastal resorts of Pattaya and Hua Hin, I was back in Bangkok.

I had heard about a place called Pata Zoo, located on the roof of one of the city’s oldest malls. Unfortunately, it had made headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons.

One of the attractions is a gorilla called Bua Noi. She has spent 30 years alone in a cage and her situation is angering animal rights campaigners across the world, including the singer/actress Cher.

I had mixed feelings about visiting but I figured I should go and see for myself the conditions of the zoo. If it was really as bad as made out in the media, at least the video might put others off visiting.

Join me as I visit Bangkok’s most controversial zoo.

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