Mutilation and malnutrition of the animals makes them unfit for return to the wild. But they’re safe and well-fed in their permanent new  bushveld home.

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The 23 lions from Lima had begun a rehabilitation process before the Animal Defenders International brought them to South Africa.

They lie about in their secure  enclosures, apparently at ease about being watched by humans whom they have no reason to like.

In the distance, the nine lions from Colombia, who were locked up right until they left the country, are given more privacy.

Emoya Big Sanctuary director Savannah Heuser explains that rehabilitation will taken months, perhaps years.

The lions are being well fed and given expert veterinary treatment sponsored by ADI

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Unlike the South American lions the new arrivals will eventually be returned to the wild.

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The Netherlands-based Stichting Leeuw is paying to move the three lions from Germany to the Emoya Big Cat Sanctuary 300 kms north of Johannesburg later this month.

Sanctuary director Savannah Heuser says these lions will be very different from the 33 troubled and traumatised cats they received from South American circuses ten days ago.

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She says after several months of rehabilitation, the lions will eventually be able to return to live and breed in the wild.

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