{"id":34981,"date":"2017-06-05T15:14:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-heartbreak-as-rescued-circus-lions\/"},"modified":"2017-06-05T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T15:14:35","slug":"south-africa-heartbreak-as-rescued-circus-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-heartbreak-as-rescued-circus-lions\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa heartbreak as rescued circus lions poisoned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Two lions rescued from circuses in South America and relocated to South Africa have been killed by poachers.}<\/p>\n<p>Animal Defenders International (ADI) which helped move 33 lions last year, including Jos\u00e9 and Liso, says it might offer a reward for information.<\/p>\n<p>The lions&#8217; heads, skins, tails and feet were removed, prompting suspicions that they were killed for ritual purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The crime is currently being investigated by South Africa&#8217;s police and anti-poaching units.<\/p>\n<p>ADI head Jan Creamer said she was heartbroken over the killings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jos\u00e9 and Liso had suffered a terrible life of abuse but their new life in Africa had given them a new lease of life,&#8221; the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 had suffered brain damage from blows to the head in the circus, it said.<\/p>\n<p>The lions had been living at the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary, inside a 5,000-hectare private farm in the northern Limpopo province.<\/p>\n<p>ADI says it has placed rescued animals in sanctuaries in South Africa for 21 years and this is the first such incident.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20576 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96348598_fc272125-a4ad-41a0-bf0c-42d04e25843f.jpg\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 and Liso had suffered a life of abuse, according to ADI\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Two lions rescued from circuses in South America and relocated to South Africa have been killed by poachers.} Animal Defenders International (ADI) which helped move 33 lions last year, including Jos\u00e9 and Liso, says it might offer a reward for information. The lions&#8217; heads, skins, tails and feet were removed, prompting suspicions that they were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34981"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}