Famed American pop singer Cher took to Twitter over the weekend to react to last week’s report that Sri Lanka was leading the world in elephant killings.

The musician turned animal rights activist posted a series of impassioned tweets responding to various parties about the news while also highlighting other alleged elephant abuses.

Cher was instrumental in securing the release of Kaavan, dubbed the world’s loneliest elephant, from a zoo in Pakistan. Kaavan was a diplomatic gift Sri Lanka made to Pakistan in 1985. He spent the last 35 years in what the BBC has called a barren, substandard zoo enclosure in Islamabad. Since his mate Saheli died in 2012, Kaavan had been living there in isolation, until he was moved to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia where he will roam freely with a herd of local elephants. According to the BBC and other reports, Cher paid for the legal team to secure Kaavan’s release from the Islamabad zoo.

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