{"id":32369,"date":"2023-08-17T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/cher-snuck-into-ukraine-to-rescue-bear\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:02:03","slug":"cher-snuck-into-ukraine-to-rescue-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/cher-snuck-into-ukraine-to-rescue-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Cher ‘snuck into’ Ukraine to rescue bear"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Cher<\/a> \u201csneaked back in\u201d to Ukraine to rescue a bear.<\/p>\n

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Cher helped rescue a bear<\/p>\n

The 77-year-old singer\u2019s Free The Wild organisation managed to evacuate a tiger, six lions and a panther from a zoo in the country before Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia invaded last year, but after they were unable to move the creature at the time, the group later went back in a rented vehicle to bring him across the border too.<\/p>\n

She told The Hollywood Reporter: \u201cWe went in before the war and did everything to get them out. But we left the bear, so we had to sneak back in with a big pickup truck and get him out during the war.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u2018Believe\u2019 hitmaker was also involved in another animal rescue effort, a lengthy legal battle to have elephant Kaavan removed from Islamabad Zoo in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cIt took me five years in court to get Kaavan out of that zoo but Islamabad finally understood exactly why it needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nCher made the fight to free Kaavan \u2013 who was dubbed the world\u2019s loneliest elephant after being left alone in captivity after his companion Saheli died in 2012\u2013 a personal crusade because her efforts to have another elephant, Billy, moved from Los Angeles Zoo to a sanctuary.<\/p>\n

\nShe said: \u201cThe truth is that I saved Kaavan because I couldn\u2019t save Billy.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAnd Billy still suffers every day.<\/p>\n

\n\u201cNow we are working with one of, if not the most, developed nations on the planet, the United States, and our own people don\u2019t seem to understand or appreciate the effects of zoo life on these creatures. He deserves to spend his last years in a sanctuary.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nIn December, the LA City Council recommended 38-year-old Billy be moved to a sanctuary but the zoo disagreed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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