Amayi and Moran move into their new home 

Our two lions can no longer be called cubs - they were one year old this month and received a very special birthday present - a wonderful new home. It's taken many months and suffered a few setbacks along the way, but the new enclosure at Chipembere camp is now finished.

The local people have been enormously generous with allowing PAW to purchase additional land over the time that Barry and Adele have been running Mwabvi, and Chipembere camp has grown in size to over 30 hectares, so that what was planned as a fairly small predator enclosure is now a much larger area of scrub and trees giving our two lions plenty of room to run and play, with space to spare for more cats when we get them.

Barry and his team have worked tirelessly over the last six months to prepare the enclosure,  and finally in January 2011 the two young felines were ushered through the short corridor connecting the two enclosures (as always, Amayi was straight in, but Moran needed a little encouragement) and into their new home.

The old enclosure will stay as it is and be used as an temporary home for new arrivals while they get used to their new surroundings, and as a quarantine area should an animal be moved in or out of the facility.