Macca, Pammy set elephant in India free
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| Sir Paul McCartney |
The former Baywatch star and the Beatles singer publicly backed a drive by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to rescue Sunder, an elephant who suffered injuries after being mistreated by his handler and kept chained in the dark for seven years at the Jyotiba Temple in Maharashtra, India, the Daily Express reported.
Both stars sent letters to Indian officials urging them to step in and end the scandal. “I have seen photographs of young Sunder, the elephant kept alone in a shed at a temple and put in chains with spikes,” McCartney had written. “Enough is enough. Get Sunder out,” he wrote.
On Thursday, it emerged that Sunder is to be moved from the temple to a wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre near Bangalore after an intervention by the country’s Forest Minister Dr Patangrao Shripatrao Kadam.
A Peta spokesman said they ‘are grateful to the Forest Minister for agreeing to liberate Sunder’.
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| Pamela Anderson |
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