In Photos: Zoo animals get second chance after being rescued from 'worst zoo in the world'
The Four Paws charity launched a rescue effort at the Khan Younis zoo in Gaza, dubbed the worst zoo in the world, when it discovered that the zoo was displaying the taxidermied corpses of animals that had died from stress, disease and starvation. After the zoo asked for help, Four Paws removed 15 animals including a Bengal tiger, a tortoise, a pelican and an emu. Most were destined for an animal sanctuary in Jordan. The nine-year-old male tiger named Laziz was moved to the Lions Rock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem, South Africa.
Laziz, a nine-year-old male Bengal tiger, lays in a metal cage in the Khan Younis zoo in the southern Gaza Strip.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A monkey climbs the fence of a metal cage in the Khan Younis zoo.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A worker stands next to an ill baby deer lays on mattresses in a metal cage in the Khan Younis zoo.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A worker fills water for an Emu to drink inside a metal cage in the Khan Younis zoo.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A Pelican walks inside a metal cage in a zoo in the Khan Younis zoo.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A tiger which was evacuated from the Khan Younis zoo in the southern Gaza Strip is carried after being treated by members of the international non-government "Four Paws” organization in Beit Dagan, near Tel Aviv.Khalil Mazraawi/AFP / Getty Images
Palestinian Muhammed Owida, the owner of the Khan Younis zoo carries a turtle out of its cage to be transferred out of the Gaza Strip.Khalil Hamra/The Associated Press
A turtle is fed inside it's enclosure at the New Hope Centre, an animal refuge near Amman, Jordan.Khalil Mazraawi/AFP / Getty Images
A pelican sits inside it's enclosure at the New Hope Centre, an animal refuge near Amman, Jordan.Khalil Mazraawi/AFP / Getty Images
A deer sits inside it's enclosure at the New Hope Centre near Amman, Jordan.Khalil Mazraawi/AFP / Getty Images
Laziz, a Bengal tiger from Gazas Khan Yunis zoo, is released in an enclosed environment at the Lions Rock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem, South Africa.Mujahid Safodien/AFP / Getty Images