Ethiopian zoo poisons rare lions to cut costs

[Canuck_Buck]

Ethiopia's lions, famous for their black manes, adorn statues and the local currency. The country's emperors were long fascinated by lions, part of their connection with Solomon, the lion of Judah.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/11/22/ethiopia.lions.ap/index.html

The Lion Zoo has poisoned six cubs so far this year, Abdulaziz said. He added that the poisoning has been going on at least since he arrived two years ago; the total number of cubs killed was not clear.

.....[:'(]You'd think that they would have picked up the phone to see if some other zoo could take them for a while or permanently...[&:]

[ipscshooter]

The "zoo" only costs $6G's a month to operate, but only gets about $5G's a month in revenues? You'd think you could get a few of the hypocrites in Hollywood to pony up the little bit extra that it would cost to stop killing those cubs. Pam Anderson? Angelina? Brad? How about it. $500 a month each and you can save some baby lions...

[Canuck_Buck]

I hear ya IPSC, where are the peta types now?

[ipscshooter]

They're all out throwing a parade because some hunter fell out of a treestand and broke his neck.