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LIMA - Ojiclaro and Iron, two lions freed from a circus in Colombia, were the first to board a plane bound for South Africa.
The planeload of 33 lions rescued from abuse in Peruvian and Columbian circuses will fly to South Africa on Friday in what campaigners call the largest ever airlift of big cats.
The lions, with names such as Zeus and Shakira, were freed after the use of wild animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru in 2011 and Colombia in 2013.
They have been rounded up with the help of authorities by Animal Defenders International (ADI), an animal rights charity.
"It's truly wonderful that these lions, after a lifetime of suffering and abuse in circuses, are going home to Africa," said the president of ADI, Jan Creamer.
"All of the lions when they arrive from the circuses have health problems, parasites, disease," she added.
"All of their lives they haven't had enough food, so they have long-term malnutrition problems."
In recent months spent in straw-lined cages in a refuge north of Lima, however, they have been well fed and are in generally good health, she said.
Rest of article at Source: https://www.enca.com/south-africa/first-lions-board-spiritoffreedomflight
The planeload of 33 lions rescued from abuse in Peruvian and Columbian circuses will fly to South Africa on Friday in what campaigners call the largest ever airlift of big cats.
The lions, with names such as Zeus and Shakira, were freed after the use of wild animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru in 2011 and Colombia in 2013.
They have been rounded up with the help of authorities by Animal Defenders International (ADI), an animal rights charity.
"It's truly wonderful that these lions, after a lifetime of suffering and abuse in circuses, are going home to Africa," said the president of ADI, Jan Creamer.
"All of the lions when they arrive from the circuses have health problems, parasites, disease," she added.
"All of their lives they haven't had enough food, so they have long-term malnutrition problems."
In recent months spent in straw-lined cages in a refuge north of Lima, however, they have been well fed and are in generally good health, she said.
Rest of article at Source: https://www.enca.com/south-africa/first-lions-board-spiritoffreedomflight
So happy!.