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Christian the Lion - the full story (in HQ)
         



            
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            © Beckmann Group.

TO MAKE A DONATION AND HELP THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK...

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Donations.html

THE DVD, "CHRISTIAN THE LION AT WORLD'S END" CAN BE PURCHASED AT...

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Videos_and_DVDs.html

WHICH WILL HELP THE BORN FREE FOUNDATION SAVE EVEN MORE OF THE WORLD'S WILDLIFE.

THEY ALSO HAVE SIGNED COPIES OF VIRGINIA MCKENNA'S BOOK "CHRISTIAN THE LION'S JOURNEY TO FREEDOM" AVAILABLE AT...

http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Books.html


The dvd is also available at

http://www.beckmanndirect.com/Wildlife_BFWChristianTheLionWorldsEndDVD.php

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
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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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