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Wildlife park in South Africa

King of beasts & Safari Park is a conservation enclosure for lions, cheetahs, hyena, wild dogs and various antelope. It is located in the Cradle of Humankind in the North Due west province of South Africa.

The park [edit]

I store within the Lion and Safari park

Cub interactions at the Panthera leo and Safari Park

The Panthera leo & Safari Park was originally a wild fauna conservation enclosure for lions located in the Gauteng province in South Africa. In 2016, the park relocated to new premises of 600 hectare (ca. 1,500 acre) in the Cradle of Humankind in the North West province. The park is situated north of Lanseria Airport inside driving distance of Johannesburg and Pretoria. It has a big variety of predators and big herbivores indigenous to Africa.

The Panthera leo & Safari Park is home to over lxxx lions including the rare white lions and many other carnivores such as South African cheetah, Cape wild canis familiaris, brown hyena and spotted hyena, black-backed jackal, and a wide diverseness of antelope which roam freely in the antelope surface area.^[ane]

The antelope area, containing giraffe, warthog, blesbok, wildebeest, impala, gemsbok, and zebra, is a separate area abroad from the lions and other carnivores.

In addition to the brute enclosures the new park has a children's play expanse, restaurants, conference facilities and a retail centre within v pocket-size domes. Guests are also able to mitt-feed giraffes, ostriches and antelope.^[2]

Twice a day the park also offers Lion walks and Cheetah walks in which clients, in the company of a park employee, follow the beast for a short walk within the park.^[2]

Cub interactions [edit]

Cub interactions involve the clients being in a separate enclosure with a lion cub for a short period of time during which photos tin exist taken and minimal interaction with the animal is possible.

In 2015 the Lion & Safari Park banned cub interactions but plant that visitor numbers dropped dramatically as people were going to other places that still offered cub interactions. In 2016 cub interactions were re-introduced as an additional part of a guided tour at the new premises of the park. The CEO, Rodney Fuhr, said that they had no choice since the "survival of our business will be at stake."^[iii]

Not-profit organization, Blood Lions, which is opposed to the exploitation of lions in whatever class, condemned the park and those who chose to visit it for the cub interactions. The park believes that they are managing the interactions with the cubs in a fashion that will not accept a negative touch on on the cubs.^[3]

Attack [edit]

On June 1, 2015, Katherine Chappell was visiting the original location of the park in the company of a tour operator, Pierre Potgieter of Kalabash tours.^[4] Chappell had opened her window and leant out to take photographs, against park rules, when a panthera leo lunged through the window of the vehicle and bit her on the neck. Chappell died in the Lion Park of her wounds before the paramedics arrived.^[5] Potgieter fought off the lion and suffered injuries to his arms and an unconfirmed heart attack.^[4]

Chappell had been visiting South Africa to work on the conservation of wildlife,^[6] and was raising funds for Wildlife ACT, a conservation charity.^[7]

Unfortunately, this attack was not an isolated incident. In April 2015, an Australian named Brendan Smith, was attacked by a lion when he opened his motorcar window. Smith survived the attack and later admitted that he was at fault for opening his window.^[8]

2 days afterward the Australian incident a local male child rode through the park on his wheel after having cutting a pigsty in the fence. He was attacked by a cheetah but also survived.^[ix]

References [edit]

^ "Lion & Safari Park | About". Retrieved 2021-03-09 .
^ ^a ^b "Nigh The Park". Lion and Safari Park. 2019. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
^ ^a ^b Kirk, Robyn (eighteen August 2016). "Lion Park resumes controversial cub interaction". The Denizen. Johannesburg. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Lion Park attack tour operator speaks". eNCA.com. 2 June 2015. Retrieved 25 Feb 2019.
^ Variety Staff. "'Game of Thrones' editor killed by lion in South Africa". bostonherald.com.
^ Eleftheriou-Smith, Loulla-Mae (3 June 2015). "Katherine Chappell: American woman killed by panthera leo worked for Game of Thrones and wanted to 'protect wild animals'". London: The Contained. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
^ Snowdon, Kathryn (three June 2015). "Game Of Thrones Editor, Katherine Chappell, Mauled To Decease By A Lion At South African Safari Park". The Huffington Post. Retrieved iii June 2015.
^ "Cheetah attacks boy at Lion Park - Traveller24". Traveller24.com. ane April 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
^ "Cheetah attacks male child at Lion Park - Africa Geographic". Africa Geographic. 2 Apr 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2019.