The facility wrote at the time, "Barbary lions are an extinct subspecies in the wild. They used to inhabit areas of North Africa. Nowadays, people can only find them in zoos. In the future, Safari Park Dvůr Králové would like to breed these rare beasts."

Four rare Barbary lion cubs are set to leave Safari Park Dvůr Králové as part of an international effort to protect the critically endangered subspecies.View on euronews

Four Barbary lion cubs were recently born at Dvůr Králové Safari Park in the Czech Republic. The three females and one male cub were seen playing in their outdoor enclosure on Wednesday under the watchful eyes of their parents,