BETA rescues an abused lion in Beirut
 

BETA (Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is a lebanese NGO working to ensure that one day all the animals in Lebanon will get the chance to live the life they deserve because it is their plant too... Through education and direct action, BETA rescues stray and abused animals, while combating abusive pet shops and the illegal trade in wildlife.
One of the major rescues BETA did was of a neglected and starving 2-year old lion cub in Karantina area on thursday 27 august.
here are the articles:

- Tayyar.org: http://www.tayyar.org/Tayyar/News/PoliticalNews/ar-LB/12895......9579654762404.htm

- The Daily Star: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=105 837

- L'orient le jour: http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/629457/Le_roi_dchu.html & http://www.lorientlejour.com/category/Liban/article/629581/Le_jeune_lion_de_La_Quarantaine_sauve_d'une_mort_c ertaine.html

- AFP: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9W3rTKxnbPiiLzrAh5fuM8lxGrg?index=0

OTV also did a report on the rsecue, i hope it would be posted soon

if u're an animal lover, plz don't hestitate to offer any possible help, whether by adopting a pet, volunteering or donating. i have been a volunteer with BETA for 2 years and it's a great experience!
here's our website: www.betalebanon.org

thank u!

I don't like animals. But.. as far as I'm concerned I could offer help, only, if you get the webmaster in contact with me.. The website is vulnerable. Anyway I got to run cheers.

systamatics, have u ever heard of Mahatma gandhi's saying: "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated"? i should see the greatnessin this country!
ppl in srilanka are extremely poor and ill, and their situation is much much worse than ours, yet they give even little food to strays and they do not harm them.
the matter here is not about helping ppl or helping animals. it's the animals' planet too, toherwise they wouldn't have existed. and they are far more vulnerable than ppl.
we are hurting no1, we r attacking no1. he who offers to help us is most welcome and there is no need for such comments. if u care so much about ppl being poor and helpless, u can go help them. no1 is forcing any1 to help animals here.
thank you

Stop talking about y3eesho el ness. We could have been a great country. We (the people) chose not, so put the blame on us. Having said that, animals don't have to suffer because of our choices. 3anjad ni7na sha3eb bajam. We only want to act european with our dresses and our prestige and our walks but when it comes to the most important things we decide not to. Khlosna. It's great to hear about such organizations in Lebanon. In the midst of chaos and corruption and neglegence , they are trying to maintain a certain level of civlization.
About needy people, they are better of getting 1,000 dollars every four years for the elections and selling the potential of a proper life.

save the lion so he can eat me in 5 years :hawhaw:
I really don't care about neither humans nor animals
evolution has to take place, weak individuals should die for the quality of life and society to improve
it is not my job to feed and take care of someone else's kids, whether he is an animal or a fellow human, you can't feed them, don't have them, that's the plain and simple logic that would have made human life much better
africans have 4.8 child per woman on average, keep them starving until they learn that sex will get them nowhere, giving them bread is only allowing them to live and give birth even more. last time I checked, we kill the parasites in our garden because they are taking away nutrients from the producing plants, we don't feed the parasites until they fill the earth :Tawa:
I'm not gonna donate to anyone or any animal so they can get laid. :huh:

PS: I donate blood :p

i think i was clear when i said: if u're an animal lover, plz don't hestitate to offer any possible help.
u can choose not to help any1, but let me tell u that animals nurse other animals, smtimes of different species. do u think that animals are better than u?
as for not feeding africans, well, if we follow the same logic, we should not feed half of the world if not more, including ppl in our arab world.

I was just giving my opinion
I give donations just as any other person, ma 7a eb5ol 3a alef lira on every donation campaign
bas I really believe to solve the root of the problem, money won't cut it and helping will not change the world
we need rules, we need birth control. so I help a guy he gives birth to 5 kids, I didn't make the world better, I made it worse

I help people that were living well and then they had some sort of accident or disease that was unexpected, in that case it was not their fault w 7aram they will need help
bas I don't like helping someone who dug his own grave by giving birth to kids he knows he could not feed

I don't believe animals are better than humans, or vice versa, I believe we are equal, they have their enviroment where they live comfrotably in, and we have ours, if I trade places with a money or a whale I'd die in less than a day and vice versa

but I like to see some long term solutions instead of send bread to the hungry african kid

we can flood africa with bread, but if they don't stop having 5 kids per woman, it's useless, eventualy they will eat all the bread and they will starve again, that's what I'm saying, these help methods are not making them richer, they are just making us poorer :hawhaw:

I love your signature by the way I am using it in my MSN personnal message
I've always believed in that quote though I didn't hear it before, this is why I don't lie, cheat or say a bad word ever...not even if my life depended on it
hoping humans will become more honest and more civilized

i see ur point and u have reminded me of an important thing when u spoke of irresponsible breeding and solutions. our dogs and cats are all spayed and neutered bcz we are fighting overpopulation. so this is part of the solution regarding animals. as for humans.... oh well, u can try to educate the poor ones who breed a lot and still give them food but education is the key. the problem in africa is that ppl were abused for so long they are now killing each other for no reason so many of them do not have time for education. besides, africans are not the threat to the world's riches bcz 1st, africa is the sourse of all riches and 2nd, bcz most african children die of aids, malaria, cholera and other diseases. so if u do the math, how many child remains of the 4.8 children born to every african woman?

back to the animals, one should not necessarily have to like animals but what they must not do is abuse them. it is plain cruel and simply wrong. if u harm an animal u can easily harm a human being. abuse was the case of the lion whose owner did nthg but keeping him in a lousy cage with almost no food or water. why did he have to take the lion from his environment to emprison him? this is the main issue here. and if permanently granted to BETA, the lion will hopefully be sent to a sanctuary outside lebanon.

tayyeb he eats then he dies

enno, they shouldn't try to help africa all at once
they spent billions and billions since 1940 on africa, ma ka2an nba3at dollar
organisation, planning, starting small, step by step, one region at a time. millions are dying bas throwing bread around is not exactly ending anything

they plan aid in territories, UN centers make it clear for the population that if you give birth for more than 1 child, you get nothing, w they apply this rule, w metel el chater they will only give birth to one kid
if they don't let them die, and I insist on let the ones that were warned die

my plan might be a 100 years plan, but it will get somewhere, and from the start, little regions will improve permanently and diseases there will be controlled
the past 70 years got nowhere, they are still telling you "your dollar will feed an african kid" since before I was born and they will always be hungry

heyk just give bread and medicine and don't ask for return is not good nor fair

how about spaying and neutering ppl? :)
frankly all those big nations and the UN don't give a s**t about the african ppl. they're in for the gold and diamond. and don't count too much on what they feed them, it's nthg compared to the food waste of the tables of arab oil tycoons. the WFP and FAO pretend to be feeding and educating the africans whereas they are stealing africa's riches. sad but true and no1's doing anythg about it!

click here for the video of the rescue.
A very special thank you to OTV :D

enno yostoflo
they're helping animals
you're not helping anyone or anything
and you're complaining about them lool

AMEN!

and not that i'm religious or anything- "god" forbid- but here are some religious quotes i think those who pretend to believe in god should consider:

i would also like to add that laws in favor of animals in lebanon have been made in 1960. i think back then people were more humane and it's a damn shame to see that after 50 years and instead of progressing, people took a turn for the worse.
and for those who question our work and our mission i suggest they take a look b4 judging us: click here
thank you!

when i have some money , i contribute :huh:
w akeed yestoflo , im only expressing my point of view .
this money shouldnt be goin to animals , so that they can have a fancy meal and live a better life then some humans in lebanon.

animals are citizens too lool
some dogs are more loyal and sometimes even more intelligent than some of the people I met
a living being is a living being, we all think the same way"seek pleasure, avoid pain"
we all spend our lives looking for food, water and sex and we all eventualy die
the only difference is the way we look for food and water and a mate
animals do a mating dance while we as guys menzammir and scream out the window "ya chal5a!" yeah we are smarter and more civilized :hawhaw:

As human beings, we have responsibility in this world towards everything around us : nature, plants, animals, and other human beings.
And as part of our instinct, our first priority would be to focus on our own species.

However, as time progressed ... it's hard to judge anyone because of their decision to value animals' life over human beings, or saving a tree or forest over saving someone in need (due to multifactorial causes)

And moreover, we can easily argue which one deserves more the chance to be served or helped or saved or whatever ... but at a certain point our instinct takes control and our concern will be directed on needy human beings ...

That's why we shouldn't judge people for well choosing their priorities ... Helping each other should always remain on the top list and I think that's what Systamatics is trying to say in his own systamatic way :P

Thank You ...

A Last Note... (Wednesday, October 21, 2009)

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As a cub still being nurtured by my mother, living the wild life in the Savannah, belonging to a Pride, I was a free lion till one day I was trapped and taken away by ‘MAN’ and was placed in captivity and taken for a very long bumpy ride till I finally reached another country called, Lebanon. Life became dark and I was frightened and confused and wanted my home and my mom. Just when I thought that was the worst thing that could happen to me, I was left in captivity for what would feel like forever.
My childhood story is still being debated since all sorts of stories were told, probably to hide the truth, which is probably the worst story of my short life. The pet store owner said he raised me since I was 2 months old, others said I was kept at a zoo nearby... All I know is that I was being poked continuously in order to make growling noises and “entertain” some people who came to visit me. When I grew bigger I demanded more food that could not be delivered and instead I was barely fed some bread and a little water to quench my thirst. I became used to the feeling of hunger, my stomach felt full and inflated all the time, little did I know that was not a good sign.

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One day, I heard sweet voices and encouragement to hang on to life, a group of people called BETA came to my rescue, fought for me and transported me to Animal Encounter, ‘a non-profit educational centre for wild life conservation’, where I was slowly regaining my strength. I was fed proper food and was finally treated like a king. I thought: at last, humans were helping me become healthy to stand up again and when that would happen maybe I would finally travel back to my natural habitat and run free and wild and maybe even see my mother again.
A vet from South Africa came to visit me and I was treated accordingly but my body was too tired for me to handle all this progress, some days I felt better, others I felt weak again. I did not make it for the vet's next visit, it was too late to rewind what was done and my body caved in one day. The long times of sickeness and pain were stronger than my poor body can handle and I passed on one day.

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I was only 2 years of age when I died, too young if you ask me. I know from experience that there is evil out there but there is a lot of good as well. Thanks to all of you who supported me, I was able to live the last days of my life on earth surrounded by people who cared enough to want me to get better. I regret to let down all those who believed in me, but I want to make sure you all know I am not feeling pain any longer & that for the first time ever... I’m free.
I have so much I want to say but I bid you all farewell, you will always be in my thoughts as I know I will be in yours…

My name is ADAM…

http://www.betalebanon.org/n_news.asp?news_id=254

I totally agree with systa...I've never seen a pig rescuing a gazelle or a cat feeding a dolphin but humans are so important now they want to take responsibility for everything. Let nature take its course of action. Animals will suffer and die so that this plane can fit more of us stinky humans, there Is nothing u can do about it.

If I met that lion, he would have been on my special spicy lion burger. Good Source of protien...