Christian the Lion – the full story (in HQ)
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There’s also more info at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_the_lion
Many thanks to all the TV shows and news programmes who’ve used my video in their reports and helped to raise awareness of animal welfare throughout the world.
This is also true of news publications such as The Sunday Times (27-07-08) & TimesOnline…
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4407100.ece
and The Daily Telegraph (31.07.08)…
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/30/ealion130.xml
and also The Sun (28.07.08)…
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/real_life/article1479860.ece
Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson said in his autobiography, “I used to count the days on which we hadn’t seen Christian, but when they reached 97, I gave up recording them in my diary.” Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river.
“Lion Man” Gareth Patterson, author, environmentalist, and the person who continued George Adamson’s lion rehabilitation work, revisited Kora in 1998. This is what he found…
http://www.fatheroflions.org/Kora_Revisited.html
As for the two guys, the Born Free Foundation tells me that Anthony “Ace” Bourke (referred to as Ace “Berg” in a Daily Mail article) lives in Australia as a lecturer and expert in the area of Aboriginal Art, and John Rendall lives in the UK and is a Trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust.
Anyone wishing to donate to the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust can do so by contacting one of the following….
George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust
16a Park View Road
London
N3 2JB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8343 4246
Fax: +44 (0)20 8343 4048
info@georgeadamson.org
The Tony Fitzjohn/George Adamson
African Wildlife Preservation Trust
Georgianna Pennington Regnier
116 La Patera Drive
Camarillo
CA 93010
USA
+1 805 987 0997
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July 12th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
so nice man
July 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
awesome video.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:38 am
BARON THE WOLF REUNION
July 20th, 2008 at 12:44 am
is a fantastic history!
July 20th, 2008 at 4:15 am
beautiful message. I would like so much to be in this person’s shoes for a sec…
July 21st, 2008 at 8:12 pm
Thanks for that news flash.
July 23rd, 2008 at 3:19 am
What the hell are you talking about!?!
July 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 am
the comment before this is a reply to someone elses… I love this video!
July 25th, 2008 at 6:21 am
yeah your a genuine IDIOT! your just jealous cuz your a sorry loser who has no ambition in life. …… MORON
July 25th, 2008 at 6:45 am
hay k bonito yo kiero un animal como ese ….
July 26th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
This world is full of LOVE.
No matter what,where,who you are.
Be a vagetarian is a good choice,
to completed the LOVING WORLD.
July 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
That was so Awesome and Beautiful!! made me cry. Thanks for sharing! :o)
July 28th, 2008 at 4:54 am
This is so touching that I cried.
It demostrates that these animals can bond with their human friends and that they can be re-introduced to the wild.
WE ARE ALL ANIMALS ON THIS SMALL EARTH.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:29 am
You’re lying.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:58 am
in Dutch : jij bent een mongool
in English : you must be a moron !
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 pm
I Will Always Love you – Whitney Houston
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
what song is this
iv herd it so many times
August 5th, 2008 at 3:54 am
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August 8th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
i’ll play the skeptic for now, but who was that half naked dude towards the end? for me it just looks like a couple of lions in a zoo somewhere playing with their trainers.
the story even IF it is untrue, is still very touching. More touching because it got paired with that song. LOL.
August 12th, 2008 at 5:11 am
i cried.. wow.. hehe
August 17th, 2008 at 9:05 am
And its even cuter when it eats your arm!