Animal rights activists are appealing to officials to move 60 aging and ailing elephants out of a notorious Thai zoo, as a petition demanding the move has gained more than 100,000 signatures..
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Wildlife Friends of Thailand (WFFT) have campaigned for years to shut down the Pata Zoo in Chonburi, about 100 kilometres (60 miles) southeast of Bangkok. .
The zoo, which keeps around 300 animals in cages and enclosures, was ranked the ninth worst zoo in the world in 2020 by animal welfare group World Animal Protection..
The elephants are the latest animals at the zoo to attract concern, with WFFT saying their conditions are .
