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A CAMPAIGN to take Bua Noi - a female gorilla held in the Pata Zoo - to a better home has gained fresh momentum as the chief of a key agency has now agreed to look into the case.

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The Pata Zoo is on the top two floors of the Pata department store, an ageing building on a busy street in Bangkok.

It houses more than 200 species of animals, reptiles, turtles, birds, monkeys, leopards, tigers, bears, and the lone gorilla, Bua Noi.

Animal lover Sinjira Apaitan started an online campaign to help Bua Noi through change.org nearly a year ago.

Now, she is preparing to sit down with the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation (DNP) chief Nipon Chotibal tomorrow for talks on |how to improve Bua Noi's fate.

"This is going to be another |historic chapter in Thailand's zoo industry," Sinjira said via her website.

Sinjira, a Thai woman who lives in New Zealand, has been trying to raise public awareness, saying a gorilla like Bua Noi deserves a |home better than being locked up in a caged area on the top of a Bangkok department store.

Sinjira lamented that such a loving and intelligent creature had lived in such conditions for nearly three decades when it should have been allowed to enjoy a better home elsewhere.

"I need to speak up not just for Bua Noi but also for other rare wild animals facing a similar fate," she said.

Sinjira plans to ask the DNP to revoke the licence to operate the zoo at the Pata department store.

"The licence expired last year anyway," she claimed.

Sinjira's online campaign on change.org had attracted 34,824 supporters as of yesterday. She will submit the list of her supporters to Nipon when they met.

One of Sinjira's supporters, Wallaporn Bodhimu, said Bua Noi might not be able to live in the forest after its long years in captivity but hoped it would be allowed to live in an open zoo instead.

"Please let it go," she said.

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det går godt efter 30 år i samme lille bur, forbandet dyrplageri er hvad det er




Harrowing footage shows a destitute gorilla caged in a filthy zoo - four years after she was supposed to be set free.

Thirty-year-old Bua Noi has been living on the seventh floor of the grotty shopping mall zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, since 1992, when she was brought aged three from Germany.

She has been locked in her cramped and dirty cage and has never set foot outside the concrete floor.

Footage taken last week shows the sad-eyed gorilla rolling around her cage pulling her hair out in frustration.

There even appear to be tears in her eyes as she looks out from behind the rusty bars of her enclosure.

There were calls for Bua Noi to be released in 2015 and the zoo to be closed - but shocking she remains in the cage to this day.

Other animals seen in the video appear to be in an unhealthy condition - with one chimp blowing raspberries at visitors and a fox frantically scratching around its pen.

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Den 33 år gammel gorilla Bua Noi sidder fanget i et thailandsk shoppingcenter uden selskab og uden duften af frisk luft.

I flere årtier har aktivister forsøgt at få Bua Noi fri, men uden held.

Dog var lidt håb at spore i sidste uge, da Thailands ministerium for natur og miljø hævdede, at de ville købe Bua Noi fri.

Det skriver The Guardian.

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Den 33-årige Bua Noi har hele sit liv levet i den privatejede Zoo placeret i Thailands ældste shoppingcenter.

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