Tag: animal smuggling

The Environmental Protection Agency of Montenegro informed that after a five-month stay in the country, the lion cub Simba is leaving first to the Netherlands, and when it grows stronger there, will depart for the huge sanctuary operated by Four Paws in Africa. The vehicle with Simba left for the 2,100 km journey to Netherlands and the cub is accompanied...

The Zoological Garden in Palić, in the north of Serbia, is analyzing the footage from its security cameras near the lion cages, after the journalists from Suboticke.rs read Meta.mk's article about the lion cub Simba and sounded the alarm that the cub perhaps comes from this zoo, Sonja Mandić, the interim director of the zoo, revealed for Meta.mk. In the...

After Meta.mk published that people from Kumanovo living in luxurious villas and driving expensive cars are taking a lion cub named Simba for a ride, the police detained one person, against whom criminal charges were pressed for keeping and appropriation of a wild animal. "On the 5th of October 2021, police officers from the Crime Police Department - Sector for...

In coordination with the competent institutions, the inspectors from the State Environmental Inspectorate on Friday evening searched the Park Hotel located on the bank of the Vardar River in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. The inspector who was conducting the inspection at this 5-star hotel said for Meta.mk that the lion cub Simba wasn't found at this location. "The inspection...

Animal rights activist Tina Mickovska revealed that she is receiving death threats after she publicly denounced the trend of posting photographs of the lion cub Simba on the social networks by users from North Macedonia and called the authorities to act. On her Facebook profile she wrote that she is scared for her life, but that she won't back down...