Pop music icon Cher traveled to Pakistan over the weekend to join an elephant described as the “world’s loneliest” on his long-awaited journey to salvation.
Kaavan, an isolated, mistreated and dangerously overweight elephant that spent more than three decades languishing inside a run-down Pakistani zoo, finally escaped his meager confines and arrived at a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia on Monday.
Cher campaigned for years to get Kaavan out of Islamabad’s Marghazar Zoo. Along with U.S. businessman Eric Margolis and the group Four Paws International, the American singer and actress helped pay for his relocation through her charity, Free the Wild. “A dream is a wish your heart makes,” she sang to the animal in Pakistan to help calm his