The four bengal tigers what they had been abandoned by a circus 15 years ago and lived in a train car In a field near the town of Justo Daract, 140 kilometers from San Luis, they undertook this Wednesday afternoon their trip to Buenos Aires and then continued to their final destination in South Africa, spokesmen for the international organization reported. Four Paws.
“It’s a big day for the family of four tigers: amir khalil and his team managed to put the big cats in the transport boxes and in a truck to go to Buenos Aires,” said Four Paws, the organization in charge of the transfer, on their social networks.
Stops will be made at different points to feed the tigers and give them a drink on the 700-kilometer route to Buenos Aires
The total transfer operation will last around 50 hours from San Luis to Buenos Aires and from there on a commercial flight to Johannesburg, South Africa, to then arrive at the big cat sanctuary LionsRock, Four Paws spokespersons informed Télam.
The history of the tigers dates back to 2007, when the owner of a circus that passed through Justo Daract could not take a male and a female Bengal tiger and left them in the care of a farmer, with the promise that he would to remove them again but never did.
The two tigers have become a family of four, and for 15 years they have been pacing back and forth in a 75-square-meter cage-turned-car.
This story reached the ears of Egyptian veterinarian Amir Khalil, a wildlife specialist and director of project development for the international organization Four Paws, which is dedicated, among other things, to the rescue of animals in unsanitary living conditions, last November. .
Since then, all its teams began to carry out the necessary process to rescue these felines, becoming the first mission of this type in South America carried out by this organization, according to Luciana D’Abramo, Four Paws’ director of development.
The road trip from the heart of Argentina to the capital of this beautiful country is over 700km long. Several stops are scheduled to check on the tigers, give them water and provide the four big cats with tasty snacks. pic.twitter.com/fLSLCwnINT
— FOUR PAWS (@fourpawsint) March 9, 2022
