Now at a safe distance from the conflict and after spending four days in cages in the back of a van, the two animals were recovering from the journey in their new enclosure Wednesday, regaining their strength as they lounged in the shade.
Adult male lion named Simba sits inside a cell at a zoo in Radauti, about 30 kilometers south of Romania's northern Siret border on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. The lion and a wolf wolf named Akyla, have been evacuated from a zoo in war-torn Ukraine to safety in Romania in what an animal rights group says was a four-day mission"full of dangers" further hampered by bureaucracy at the border.
The evacuation of the large animals was made possible due to the efforts and cooperation of several animal rights groups and private citizens, including two men from the U.K. who volunteered to enter Ukraine to rescue the animals and drive them to safety. The van carrying the animals could not secure permission by the authorities to cross through Romania’s Siret border point. This left the drivers no choice but to twice traverse the towering Carpathian Mountains — which arch across the countries’ common border — from west to east adding nearly 1,000 kilometers to their journey.
Paun said that they couldn’t find a vet to help with their evacuation mission and that no tranquilizers were available, which meant that the animals were “fully aware and awake” through their journey to safety.
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