New life for circus lions

johannesburg - Dozens of Lions on Sunday flew to South Africa to start a new life in a sanctuary after being mistreated for years in Latin American circuses.

In a transshipment area at the Johannesburg airport could hear the roar of 33 lions. From there they were taken by truck to the reservation of 5,000 hectares. Most lions are entrusted to the care of people because they are too weak to care for themselves.

,, These animals are stolen in the wild and have lived in hell, '' said a spokeswoman for an organization that rescues lions from illegal attractions in Peru and Colombia.,, They are beaten, starved and everything that makes it worth to his lion she remembered, '' Jan Creamer told the news channel Sky. Some of the predators were removed the nails during their imprisonment or their teeth smashed with steel pipes.