The military works at the Dutch embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and to protect the diplomats. During a visit to a market, they stumbled accidentally on the terrible living conditions of Simba, as they are the one and a half year old lion.
Read also Beer Lula and lion Simba, rescued from Mosul Terrible conditions His cage is too small, the lion is stressed, malnourished, and surrounded by noisy dogs, monkeys and cats, write the initiators in their crowdfundingactie. “When we visited him, he was afraid of all the noise and he sat in the corner of his cage.” the
The two mp's summarize the plan on to the lion to be freed and that seems to succeed in that. Initially there was a 36.000 euro is needed for the beast to get, but because of the transport with a bevoorradingsvlucht of the Dutch Defence can be arranged, there is still only 8,000 euro is needed for the care of Simba and medication and food for the animal. That amount is now almost within.