Horsham-based international animal charity Born Free launches elephant campaign

Ab Fab actress Joanna Lumley spearheads new animation

Transcript

00:00 (birds chirping)

00:02 Our true story starts with a little elephant

00:06 called Puli Puli.

00:08 (dramatic music)

00:11 - I don't understand.

00:19 I'm frightened.

00:20 I see thick bars everywhere, as thick as trees.

00:29 I pace up and down, the same paces,

00:34 feet in the same places.

00:36 A prisoner with no hope of release, ever.

00:42 Kept in a yard, locked in a concrete cell.

00:47 No hope, no purpose.

00:51 I want to be free.

00:53 I'm a prisoner like those before me,

00:55 whose footsteps I follow.

00:57 But what else is there?

00:59 Except to rock and pace and sway and search for dreams.

01:04 (dramatic music)

01:07 Everything is provided, except purpose and hope.

01:17 And the visitors watching, they don't understand.

01:25 They think we're playing.

01:27 (dramatic music)

01:29 Time has no meaning.

01:32 There is no escape.

01:33 The only real way out is death.

01:37 Ah, I understand.

01:52 I am going home.

01:57 (elephant trumpets)

02:00 - Enough is enough.

02:02 Dozens of elephants, intelligent and sentient,

02:07 still languish in UK zoos.

02:09 Whether taken from the wild or bred in captivity,

02:14 they die young and suffer mental anguish,

02:17 denied their life of freedom in the sun.

02:20 Join us by signing the petition for an elephant-free UK.

02:25 (dramatic music)

02:28 (gentle music)

02:30 (gentle music)

02:33 (gentle music)

02:35 (gentle music)

02:38 [BLANK_AUDIO]