Lions returned to Rwanda 15 years after population wiped out

Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 12:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The sedated, blindfolded lions lay in the dirt, unwitting passengers about to embark on a 30-hour, 2,500-mile (4,000-kilometer) journey by truck and plane from South Africa to Rwanda, whose lion population was wiped out following the country's 1994 genocide.

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