Yuna is the first of five lions rescued from the warzone due to make a new home in Kent.
A Kent animal sanctuary has arranged the rescue of two lions from the war in Ukraine.Rori, a male lion, is expected to join her in a few months, but is being temporarily housed at an animal rescue centre in Belgium while his enclosure in Kent is prepared.
The Big Cat Sanctuary plans to rescue a total of five lions from their previous homes in Ukraine, but needs to raise a total of £500,000 to do so. Three-year-old Yuna had been kept with another lion near Kyiv, and was traumatised when debris from a missile attack landed 300m from their small enclosure.
Rori, also three, had been kept as part of a private menagerie which was disbanded after the Russian invasion, and may have been used for illegal breeding.The operation to bring the two lions to the UK has taken months to plan alongside the International Fund for Animal Welfare, and the journey has taken four days to complete, travelling through six countries.
Cam Whitnall from the Big Cat Sanctuary said: “It’s been a huge effort from everyone involved. We have worked night and day for many months for this very moment and we can’t wait to get them to their forever home now here at the sanctuary.”The other lions scheduled to be brought to the sanctuary are Vanda, a one-year-old female being kept as a pet in south-eastern Ukraine, and Ama and Lira, also one and thought to have been bred illegally.
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