Photos From The Great Animal Rescue Chase & Harmony Fund's Post

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HELP 280 LIONS, LEOPARDS & BABOONS —- WARZONE RESCUE

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Amidst the sound of nearby fighting, 280 animals are hungry in Yemen’s Taiz Zoo. Lions, leopards and baboons are among those in urgent need during this civil war which began two years ago.

Taiz has witnessed fierce clashes between Houthi rebels and forces loyal to exiled president Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Airstrikes by Saudi-led coalition aircraft in support of Hadi have also battered the city.

“Before the war the animals used to eat,” says zookeeper and sub-manager Showky al-Hajj. “Everything was great until the war came in the beginning of 2015.”

Because of the war, all supply lines stopped which meant that the animals stopped receiving food and the zoo staff were no longer paid. The crisis escalated quickly and some animals starved to death.

Among the zoo’s species are some classified as endangered, including 28 Arabian leopards which could number as few as 45 in the wild. The zoo also has 20 Barbary lions thought to be descended from the ones gifted to Yemen by Ethiopa in 1953. Today Barbary lions are extinct in the wild.

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OUR EMERGENCY AID PLAN:

Donations: https://harmonyfund.org/donate/donate-innocent-animals-warzone

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1. FOOD: We’d like to make a donation of food for the animals.

2. MOVE BABOONS TO SAFETY IN THE TREES: The baboons are fighting and breeding and we’d like to move the females and their offspring to the new enclosure in a secure, treed area of a separate zoo that is far from the battle-front.

3. SAFETY FOR LIONS & LEOPARDS : Prides of these highly endangered big cats will be relocated to a zoo far from the battle-front. They will have spacious, safe enclosures and ample food supply. And the pregnant lioness needs to have a safe area alone as the lions have eaten her newborn cubs previously.

Although these are imperfect solutions, they are the best available to us in the middle of a highly complex situation. Despite best efforts, rescuers are not permitted to simply move all the animals to sanctuaries abroad at this time.

At present, food supply for the animals is currently being coordinated by the group known as A Lion’s Heart. Relocation efforts for the baboons, lions and leopards are being coordinated by Kim-Michelle Broderick, a British theatre director, and actress, who has volunteered tirelessly to save the zoo’s population. Harmony Fund would like to help provide food for all the animals and to move many of the baboons, lions and leopards to new enclosures elsewhere.

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DONATIONS TO HELP THESE INNOCENT ANIMALS OF WAR:

https://harmonyfund.org/donate/donate-innocent-animals-warzone

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Safe and secure donations can be made online to the Harmony Fund. We are an esteemed international animal rescue charity, based in the USA.

DONATE: https://harmonyfund.org/donate/donate-innocent-animals-warzone

THANK YOU all for your donations, your words of support and for SHARING this post. We are so grateful to each and every one of you. You’re absolute heroes!

Source: https://www.facebook.com/HarmonyFundAnimalRescue/photos/a.13..

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