The controversial Pata Zoo is located on top of a shopping complex in Bangkok Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on ...

Bua Noi arrived in Thailand in 1988 and has spent most of her time at the Pata Zoo, which is located above a mall in Bangkok Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Cher has called for a gorilla named Bua Noi, who has spent over 30 years living above a shopping mall in Thailand, to be rehomed. Pata Zoo is located on the 6th and 7th floors of the Pata Pinklao ...

The owner of the Pata Zoo in Thailand has refused to release the female gorilla Bua Noi, who has been caged in a high-rise mall for 33 years. Bua Noi, whose name means “Little Lotus,” has been locked ...

Thailand's only gorilla has lived at Pata Zoo, atop a mall in Bangkok, for 30 years - Copyright AFP MANAN VATSYAYANA Thailand's only gorilla has lived at Pata Zoo ...

Just weeks after a fire broke out at the Pata Zoo in Bangkok, Thailand, actor Gillian Anderson has sent the zoo’s owner a letter on behalf of PETA Asia asking him to close the exotic-animal menagerie ...

• First she freed the world's loneliest elephant from a grim and lonely life inside a Pakistani zoo. Now Cher is determined to save Bua Noi, the last remaining gorilla in Thailand, who has spent the ...

The welfare of rare and often threatened species in Thailand’s tourism and pet trades has long been a concern for animal rights activists. The conditions in which many of the animals are kept became ...

First she freed the world’s loneliest elephant from a grim and lonely life inside a Pakistani zoo. Now Cher is determined to save Bua Noi, the last remaining gorilla in Thailand, who has spent the ...

Among the lush sights of Thailand lies a dark and dismal zoo. The Pata Zoo in Bangkok is drawing attention for its questionable facilities and treatment of animals. According to a press release from ...