Il video che impazza in rete arriva dritto dritto dal passato, datato precisamente anni Settanta. Ha più di 30 anni e desta ancora tanta curiosità. I protagonisti del video sono due giovani ragazzi australiani, e il loro (ex) cucciolo di leone: Tutto era iniziato nel lontano 1969 a Londra quando Rendall e Bourke lo avevano visto da Harrods chiuso in una gabbia, solo e triste e lo Lo acquistarono per pochi spiccioli salvandolo dalla prigionia. Decisero di chiamarlo Christian.
Allevarono Christian finchè non fu troppo grande per poterlo gestire. Contattarono quindi il leggendario George Wiliamson perchè lo riportasse in Africa, libero
Dopo aver vissuto diverso tempo insieme a Londra e essersi separati per circa un anno, i tre si ritrovarono nel 1972 in una riserva naturale del Kenya e lui, sorprendentemente, si ricordò di loro.
Da allora è rimasto un amore grande a tenerli uniti.
L'affetto e la riconoscenza di un animale che trionfano!
La storia è raccontata in un libro e in un video.
THE DVD, "CHRISTIAN THE LION AT WORLD'S END" CAN BE PURCHASED AT...http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acata... 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/acata...The dvd is also available athttp://www.beckmanndirect.com/Wildlif...There's also more info at Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christia..
.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...and The Daily Telegraph (31.07.08)...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main...and also The Sun (28.07.08)...http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/...
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_Rev...
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 Trust16a Park View RoadLondon N3 2JBUK
Tel: +4... Fax: +44 (0)20 8343 4048
info@georgeadamson.org
The Tony Fitzjohn/George AdamsonAfrican Wildlife Preservation TrustGeorgianna Pennington Regnier116 La Patera DriveCamarilloCA 93010
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