Rescued from unsafe keeping conditions and facing a cruel fate, the hallmarks of the exploitative captive breeding industry, Zuri can finally feel safe in his new home at LIONSROCK. Zuri is a member of the “Golden Pride”-seven females and three males rescued from a captive breeding facility in Krugersdorp, Gauteng Province of South Africa. 

FOUR PAWS took over the pride after Gauteng provincial authorities issued a notice to the owners of the facility for having failed to comply with permit requirements. In her species-appropriate home at LIONSROCK, Zuri can be seen spending time with her sisters, lying side by side on top of a wooden structure, rolling on the grass, moving around, or stalking the horses grazing on the other side of the high security fence. 

Sadly, the story of Zuri is just a tiny portion of the dark spot arising from the exploitative captive breeding practices operating in a legal grey area and feeding into the criminal underworld of illegal trade in wild animals and their parts. FOUR PAWS says NO to captive breeding of big cats.