Boxes containing lions brought from South Africa are placed on a truck heading to Akagera National Park in the east of Rwanda in June at Kigali airport. Rwanda reintroduced lions after they were wiped out following the country’s 1994 genocide, when fleeing refugees and displaced people occupied part of the park, with the lion being driven out or killed as people tried to protect their livestock. Seven lions — two males and five females — were transported in a marathon
30-hour journey from South Africa - first by air, then the final stretch by road to Rwanda’s eastern Akagera National Park.
