African elephant Pupy arrives in Brazilian sanctuary after 30 years in Buenos Aires zoo

Pupy the elephant was left alone in a closed zoo in Argentina. Now she has been released into the wild, among other elephants – after 30 years in captivity.

African elephant Pupy arrives in Brazilian sanctuary after 30 years in Buenos Aires zoo

After spending 30 years in an Argentinian zoo, Pupy the African elephant has been transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil. The 35-year-old animal is the latest to be relocated from the ecopark in Buenos Aires to a sanctuary with better living conditions.

Pupy, the last captive elephant in the old Buenos Aires zoo, has just left behind the noise of urban traffic and everything that has been her life since she was born in Africa. Little by little, she begins to taste freedom in an elephant sanctuary in the heart of Brazil after a 2,700 km road trip from the Argentine capital. The pachyderm arrived on Friday morning at Chapada dos Guimarães, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, after five days of…

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After a life marked by more than three decades in captivity in a zoo in Buenos Aires, the elephant Puppy has finally found a refuge where he can enjoy a more peaceful and natural existence. The iconic 35-year-old African elephant has been moved to a sanctuary located in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, after a long and challenging road trip that lasted five days. Puppy’s story has shocked the world. For more than 30 years, he was kept in the zo…

An elephant in Argentina who spent 32 years in captivity in a zoo that was later converted into an ecological park has now been sent to an elephant sanctuary in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest to “live out his life.”