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Lions of lyon: wild animals as pets

24/04/2019

The Lions of Lyon were all found in captive conditions no wild animal should ever be subjected to – an apartment in Paris, a garage in Marseille, even a Lamborghini on Paris’ world-famous Champs-Elysées – and destined for lives as pets.

Meet ‘girl’

17/04/2019

This is ‘Girl’. We’ve temporarily called her ‘Girl’ because she is yet to be officially named.

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An update on simon

16/04/2019

Do you remember Simon, the young, orphaned chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau who was taken from the wild and sold as a pet? We raised funds last December to move Simon from his barren cage to a lifetime home at Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya.

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Meet dadou

15/04/2019

If you visited Paris’ beautiful Champs-Elysées, you’d expect to see the Arc de Triomphe, theatres, cafes and luxury shops. What you wouldn’t expect to see is a lion. But that’s exactly what police officers found in the back of a green Lamborghini on this world-famous thoroughfare in November 2018.

Pledge for dolphins

14/04/2019

On National Dolphin Day, Born Free’s Samantha Goddard explains why we should not overlook the plight of dolphins in captivity

Meet kuuma

10/04/2019

Car garages can be noisy, smelly and dirty. So, they’re certainly not the place to keep a one-and-a-half-month-old lion cub.

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Meet horus

08/04/2019

Most children have toy animals in their bedroom. But how would you feel about a real lion cub sitting on your child’s bed? Amazingly, this is exactly how Horus, a two-month-old cub, was discovered in an apartment in the suburbs of Paris, France, in October 2018.