When Julie took her first steps of freedom into her new home at an elephant sanctuary her 40 years living and working in a circus were finally at an end.
Taken from her mother who was killed for her ivory tusks when she was just a calf in the 1980s, Julie was shipped out of southern Africa and sold into the circus trade.
She was bought by the family-run Victor Hugo Cardinali Circus which is the largest in Portugal.
While working for the circus she lived in a barn, but now she calls a 1,000-acre elephant sanctuary of rolling hills, grassland, forest, and
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