Christian the Lion - the full story (in HQ)
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© Beckmann Group. TO MAKE A DONATION AND HELP THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK... http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Donations.html THE DVD, "CHRISTIAN THE LION AT WORLD'S END" CAN BE PURCHASED AT... http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Videos_and_DVDs.html WHICH WILL H
ELP THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION SAVE EVEN MORE OF THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE. THEY ALSO HAVE SIGNED COPIES OF VIRGINIA MCKENNA'S BOOK "CHRISTIAN THE LION'S JOURNEY TO FREEDOM" AVAILABLE AT... http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Books.html The dvd is also available at http://www.beckmanndirect.com/W
ildlife_BFWChristianTheLionWorldsEndDVD.php There's also more info at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion Many thanks to all the TV shows and news programmes who've used my video in their reports and helped to raise awareness of animal welfare throughout the world. This is
also true of news publications such as The Sunday Times (27-07-08)
TimesOnline...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407100.ece and The Daily Telegraph (31.07.08)... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/30/ealion130.xml and also The Sun (28.07.08)... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article1479860.ece Christian l
eft the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson said in his autobiography, "I used to count the days on which we hadn't seen Christian, but when they reached 9
7, I gave up recording them in my diary." Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river. "Lion Man" Gareth Patterson, author, environmentalist, and the person who continued George Adamso
n's lion rehabilitation work, revisited Kora in 1998. This is what he found... http://www.fatheroflions.org/Kora_Revisited.html As for the two guys, the Born Free Foundation tells me that Anthony "Ace" Bourke (referred to as Ace "Berg" in a Daily Mail article) lives in Australia as a lecturer and
expert in the area of Aboriginal Art, and John Rendall lives in the UK and is a Trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust. Anyone wishing to donate to the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust can do so by contacting one of the following.... George Adamson Wildlife Preservatio
n Trust 16a Park View Road London N3 2JB UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8343 4246 Fax: +44 (0)20 8343 4048 info@georgeadamson.org The Tony Fitzjohn/George Adamson African Wildlife Preservation Trust Georgianna Pennington Regnier 116 La Patera Drive Camarillo CA 93010 USA +1 805 987 0997 Honours received for
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ça trés beau
We, "humans" hurt dogs, cats, deers, sharks, seals... just for fun. People abandon their pets when they get tired of them.
PS. They don't get divorced either!!!!
èc c'est magnifique!
It's so lovely! They are probably in their sixties now but they did something so rewarding that many of us will never do! Bless them!
é !! un lion aussi calin alors qu'il etait ds la vie sauvage pendnt 1 an, c'est trop emouvant. moi aussi j'veux un lion lol
®. I had never heard of this clip before and I looked up "the best youtube video". Whoever posted this as the best was by far the best. I was crying throughout the whole clip. Wow...thats all I can say. How can any person still want to hunt animals such as the lion now that they have seen this clip
...I know I couldn't (not that I ever did). This story is truly incredible.
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