Seventeen tigers and lions were rescued from a circus and released at a sanctuary in South Africa where they encounter nature for the first time
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himTwelve tigers and five lions rescued from the circuses of Guatemala arrived in South Africa, near the sanctuary for wild animals of the ADI association and were finally released.
The ADI (Animal Defenders International) team filmed the moment in which two of the tigers, the two brothers Max and Stripes, they took their first steps on the grass sniffing curiously all around, perhaps the first time that animals can walk free on a lawn.
The animals have in fact lived their whole life in captivity, closed in small cages and forced to perform in circus shows.
The tigers and lions were not even guaranteed adequate nutrition: they were fed only with crow's feet and this did not allow them to grow and develop adequately.
ADI has brought forward a battle lasted a year and a half to convince the government of Guatemala to commit to enforce the ban on the exploitation of wild animals in circuses, in force since 2018.
Unfortunately the animals will not be able to return to the wild, since claws and canines have been removed, therefore they would not be able to hunt and feed.
In the sanctuary, however, they will finally be able to live in a better condition and closer to their nature.
Anyone wishing to help the association that will take care of tigers and lions can make a donation or remotely adopt one of the magnificent cats.
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