Five Atlas lion cubs born in the Rabat National Zoological Garden (JZN) in 2021 will be presented to visitors from February, the zoo announced on Friday.
“The newborns have benefited from appropriate veterinary monitoring and a period of close health surveillance to ensure their acclimatization to their new space,” said the JZN in a press release.
The Atlas lion, an endemic and emblematic species of Morocco, extinct in its original habitat since the last century, is the subject of a conservation program by the National Zoological Garden. It maintains “a founding nucleus of around thirty lions, with the aim of ensuring regular reproduction and preserving this valuable faunal heritage”, it is pointed out.
The conservation program dedicated to the Atlas Lions at JZN aims to rationalize reproduction through the continuous reorganization of breeding groups and the improvement of knowledge relating to the behavior and veterinary sciences of this species.
