Mexico sends 250 big cats to Indian conservation center
MND Staff
March 14, 2023
The big cats will be re-homed at a reserve in Gujarat, India. (Twitter @azcarmx)
Around 250 rescued tigers and other felines are on their way from Mexico to India, as part of a scheme to prevent extinction in their native country.
The Association of Zoos, Breeders and Aquariums of Mexico (Azcarm) and the Ostok Sanctuary, an animal rescue center in Sinaloa, worked for months to arrange the animals’ transfer to a conservation center in the Indian state of Gujarat.
cartel tigers seized in Guerrero, Mexico
Some of the big cats faced abuse before being rescued. (FGE Guerrero)
“We undertook intense work with India’s [Greens] Zoological Rescue and Rehabilitation [Kingdom] to carry out this important transfer of around 200 tigers,” Azcarm’s president, Ernesto Zazueta, said in a statement.
He added that the center had committed “to release this species into the wild so that it can repopulate areas where it has practically disappeared.”
Around 50 lions and leopards were also included in the transfer. Zazueta explained that the big cats had been abandoned, rescued, or confiscated from Mexican zoos. Mexico has seen several such cases in recent years, including the rescue of around 200 emaciated felines from Mexico City’s Black Jaguar-White Tiger Foundation in July 2022.
More:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-big-cats-india-conservation/
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