Lions from Ukraine get second chance in Eastern Cape

After a more than 12,000km journey on a high priority pro bono flight, a pair of lion brothers finally felt the African sun on their backs for the first time as they started their new lives in their ancestral homeland, the Eastern Cape.

Tsar and Jamil arrived at the Shamwari Private Game Reserve at the weekend after a monumental effort by international wildlife charity Born Free and other role players to rescue the three-year-olds from a life of mistreatment, starvation and war...

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