LIONS are starving to DEATH in a Sudan park | Very Serious Issue |
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Save Animals Lions are starving to death in a Sudan park | Very Serious Issue |
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The photographs were first shared Saturday by Osman Salih, a concerned advocate in the Sudanese capital. Since then, they’ve attracted an audience of thousands, spreading across social media feeds around the world and prompting an online campaign that has adopted the hashtag #SudanAnimalRescue
“Seeing these animals caged and be treated this way made my blood boil,” Salih wrote in another post.
Salih watched as some of the lions limped, so malnourished that their spines and hip bones looked like they may poke out of their skin. Others lay on concrete floors, next to rotting meat, as swarms of flies landed on their faces.
The scene was especially hard to see, he said, after he learned about thousands of animals perishing in Australia’s wildfires this month.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the lions ended up in the cages, but they’re located in Al-Qureshi Park, managed by the city government and funded in part by private donors, according to the news service Agence France-Presse, which sent its journalists to see the lions and published more photographs of them.
“Food is not always available, so often we buy it from our own money to feed them,” park manager Essamelddine Hajjar told the outlet.
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Officials estimated some of them have lost nearly two-thirds of their body weight. Park administrators have blamed Sudan’s wildlife officials for the lions’ worsening health, Salih said.
“The income of the park for a month is not enough to feed one lion for a week,” he wrote.
Salih said he has worked with a group to contact veterinarians and wildlife specialists, and has arranged meetings with government officials. He wants to offer help — both monetary and manpower — at a time when the country has seen economic crisis and political upheaval.
“The issue is not simply food but most importantly the animals need detailed and special treatment to rid them of infections and issues probably brought about from infested meat and poor diet,” Salih wrote.
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