A dying lion with a snare around its neck was found
‘begging for help’ on a road in South Africa.Two tourists, Meliska Vijoen and Meike Pettit, came
across the young male staggering towards them while on a safari tour in Kruger
National Park.
They immediately alert park officials and posted pictures
of the injured animal on Facebook.
‘[Our safari group] found the lion in the road clearly
asking for help,’ Meliska Vijoen wrote on the post, adding that help was slow
to arrive.
Hundreds of social media users commented on the post,
rallying to save the beast.
Park rangers meanwhile closed off the road and dispatched
vets to track down and rescue the lion. It was a race against the clock.
Park officials found the lion a few hours later, sedated
him and worked on removing the snare.
There was a moment vets believed they might have to put
the animal down, after discovering the snare had pierced his eyeball, but
luckily they were eventually able to patch him up.
‘All went well. The lion is now awake and will be
monitored,’ a spokesman wrote on the Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation’s Facebook
page afterwards.
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