Malian elephantan almost 50-year-old man and the only pachyderm remaining in the Philippines, died of various ailments after spending over four decades at the Manila Zoowhich was gifted by Sri Lanka to former First Lady Imelda Marcos.

Regarded by environmental groups as the world’s saddest elephant, Mali spent her entire stay in Manila alone in a concrete pen whose conditions led to her poor health.

Mali died Tuesday afternoon. At the hearing, Manila Zoo chief veterinarian Henry Patrick Peña-Domingo indicated that Mali has cancer, as well as problems with various organs such as the liver and kidneys, andIt is believed that he died of cardiac arrest.

For years, activists have loved People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) They condemned the loneliness and precarity in which the elephant lived and asked that she be transferred to an elephant sanctuary in Thailand.

“The world mourns for Malian elephant that has spent decades alone in the Manila Zoo,” PETA wrote on its X (formerly Twitter) account today, asking Sri Lanka not to send another elephant to Manila if authorities demand it.

PETA said that “despite repeated warnings, zoo and city officials ignored Mali’s apparently painful leg problems, which are the leading cause of death for captive elephants, condemning her to years of suffering.”

In its statement, the international organization thanked the figures and artists who advocated for the liberation of Mali at the time, including: Dr Jane Goodall, Sir Paul McCartneyThe Smashing Pumpkins, Pamela Anderson, Elie Buendia, Cat Stevens, Alicia Silverstone, Marian Rivera, Dingdong Dantes, Brigitte Bardot, Morrissey, J.M. Coetzee, Geneva Cruz and others.

Sri Lankan authorities brought the elephant in 1977, three years after its birth, to the Manila Zoo as a gesture to then-first lady Imelda Marcos. wife of dictator Ferdinand Marcos.