A bizarre and disturbing new trend sees the wealthy posing with illegally purchased tiger and lion cubs alongside supercars for Instagram photographs, animal rights campaigners warn.
This week, police in Paris found a lion cub in a Lamborghini during a traffic stop, revealing the unpleasant trend said to have spread from the Gulf states.
A male cub, named Putin less than two months old was discovered and likely would have died of poor care had police not saved him on the Champs-Elysees.
A male cub, named Putin less than two months old was discovered and likely would have died of poor care had police not saved him on the Champs-Elysees
'There are hundreds of babies going around like this illegally,' animal rights campaigner Reha Hutin, said on Wednesday.
'You can buy a cub for less than a dog. It costs 300 euros - roughly £260 - and so they buy them off circuses.
'It's really a disaster. They get these babies and they take selfies with them on social media.'
Hutin believes the fad spread to France from Gulf countries.
Wealthy people in the Gulf pose with baby cubs and 'take photographs of themselves in the car,' she said. 'Once they grow up they're just thrown out.'
The potentially destructive trend is not confined to France.
Another lion cub is adjusting to life in a Dutch big cat center after a jogger ran into it last month in a cage dumped in a field in the central Netherlands.
Wealthy people in the Gulf pose with baby cubs and 'take photographs of themselves in the car,' she said. 'Once they grow up they're just thrown out'
In a separate case brought by Hutch's NGO, 30 Million Friends, a French court handed a 6-month jail term to another person found with a lion cub, Hutin said.
'We were very happy to get that. Maybe it will dissuade the others,' she said.
The Lamborghini cub is the third recovered in a month and the sixth wild cat in under a year.
The Lamborghini cub is the third recovered in a month and the sixth wild cat in under a year
One, a small lioness, was found by the customs brigade in a cage in a garage in the southern French port city of Marseille .
The NGO is calling for beefed-up government measures against the trafficking of wild animals and their use in French circuses.
'It's the circuses that are breeding them, to have all these new cubs,' Hutin said. 'That's how these babies, these cubs, are found on (the) Internet ... It's really become a huge problem.'
The Lamborghini cub is basically fine, although a health check by a vet found that it was in a weakened state, has a problem with one of its back paws and a broken tail, 30 Million Friends said.
The cub is now in quarantine in a big cat wildlife park east of Paris and will later join the two cubs recovered by 30 Million Friends in October.
The three will probably then be sent to a large park in South Africa, joining three other lions rescued previously in France.
'We have this plan to regroup them and really have a family,' Hutin said. 'We'll sort of have this little group of six babies, Parisian babies.'
Wealthy people in the Gulf pose with baby cubs and 'take photographs of themselves in the car,' she said. 'Once they grow up they're just thrown out.' The potentially destructive trend is not confined to France
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