Two African lions rescued from an
abandoned zoos in war-torn Iraq and Syria have been transferred to their
new home in South Africa.
After several months of rehabilitation in
Jordan, Simba and Saeed arrived safely at Lion's Rock, a big cat
sanctuary in Free State province on Monday.The young lions were picked up last year from the conflict-ravaged cities of Mosul in Iraq and Aleppo in Syria.
They will be slowly introduced to Lion's Rock, their handlers say.
The rescued lions were trained for weeks in preparation for their unsedated, 33-hour journey by plane and truck to the 1,250 hectare sanctuary.
As the lions are young, aged two and four, their handlers decided to relocate them so they could meet lionesses and start their own prides
BBC
