On the off chance you haven't seen this yet, get out the hankies and enjoy. The two young men in this video were London hipsters in 1969-70. They were on the Today Show this morning talking about Christian, whom they last saw in 1974 as a full grown lion with a large pride and cubs. The older man in the video is George Adamson, of Born Free fame. He helped re-introduce Christian to the wild. From the extended comments with the video:
Christian left the Kora Reserve in 1973. He made his new territory along the Tana river, but when the Wakamba herdsmen kept bringing their livestock to his hunting ground, he moved on. George Adamson said in his autobiography, "I used to count the days on which we hadn't seen Christian, but when they reached 97, I gave up recording them in my diary." Because a lion can live from 12 to 15 years in the wild, Adamson believed that Christian ended his days in the Meru National Reserve only a few miles up river.Adamson was murdered in Kenya in 1989. The Preservation Trust was named in his honor, for all the wonderful work he did in Kenya. They ask that donations be made through Wildlife Now.
As for the two guys, the Born Free Foundation tells me that Anthony "Ace" Bourke (referred to as Ace "Berg" in a Daily Mail article) lives in Australia as a lecturer and expert in the area of Aboriginal Art, and John Rendall lives in the UK and is a Trustee of the George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust...
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