Just weeks after the "world's loneliest elephant" was rescued from a life of misery in Islamabad Zoo, two Himalayan brown bears, Suzie and Bubloo, were prepared to be airlifted on Wednesday from ...

Kaavan, dubbed the world's loneliest elephant, finally escaped the meager confines of a zoo in Islamabad and was well on his way to a wildlife sanctuary in Cambodia on Monday.

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Like an abandoned prison or asylum, the overgrown grounds of the now-shuttered Marghazar Zoo are filled with ghosts, and their rusting, barred enclosures hold sad clues to ...

International attention has helped move things along in the past – like when the entertainer Cher advocated for the release of a lonely elephant who lived in the Islamabad Zoo.

But the fight for Kaavan and the other animals in the zoo was not over. The problem was tossed from one department to another, before finally ending up in Islamabad's High Court.

Before it was forced to close over its "intolerable" treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their ...

Veterinarians from an animal welfare organization "Four Paws" conduct a medical treatment to a black bear called Rocky at Islamabad Zoo, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Sunday, March 2, 2025. Credit: AP ...

City Councilman Bob Blumenfield is calling on Thursday for the Los Angeles Zoo to delay relocating its last two remaining Asian elephants to a 17-acre preserve in Tulsa, Oklahoma until additional ...

In the end, the Islamabad High Court ordered the elephant, Kaarvan, to be shifted to a sanctuary — and the zoo to shutter.