Months after the zoo the place they lived closed as a result of Covid-19, 11 tigers gained a brand new life in a sanctuary in Thailand, after a posh and dangerous operation that concerned one of many largest huge cat rescues within the nation’s historical past.

The journey of the animals, which additionally embody two bears, started in late 2021, when the zoo the place they lived, on the vacationer island of Phuket, declared chapter and stopped working as a result of lack of vacationers due to the pandemic.

“The zoo went bankrupt, there was no meals to feed the tigers and the bears any longer they usually had been in search of an choice to resolve this drawback they usually got here to us,” stated Edwin Wiek, founder and director of the Wildlife Associates Basis, in an interview with EFE.

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