Qatar is already experiencing the World Cup with more than 1,200,000 million tourists who are fully experiencing the passion for that sport.
Its ornate stadiums are among the most spectacular in the world. Its waterfront is resplendent and the the skyscrapers are adorned with colossal banners in which the stars of the World Cup appear.
Fans flock to giant screens all over the city to watch football, whether it’s on the waterfront or seafront Doha, or in the luxurious Marina Pearl. The streets are covered in the national flags of the 32 teams participating in this year’s World Cup, and the restaurants are packed.
But something unrelated happened last week and it leaked on social media. The news had an impact due to its cruelty, based on a senseless display of opulence.
Stunning images captured in Doha show a lion cub forced to live on a balcony.
Several distraught neighbors filmed videos and sent them to animal rights organizations around the world to show tragic situation of the little lion.
For the rest of the hours animal rights activists They sent the images to various media outlets around the world so that they could be disseminated to denounce what is happening in Qatar with this animal.
The kitten lives in a balcony in the pearl districtone of the most expensive residential suburbs of Doha.
Pearl, an artificial island where they live 28,000 residents, most of them millionaires that this kind of eccentricity is allowed.
An animal rights activist, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals from the Qatari authorities, said: “It’s shocking, but not unusual.”
“We have received many reports of lion and cheetah cubs in Pearl’s apartments,” he added.
After the images went viral, Al Shareef Holding apartments coordinator Sarah Khalaf said: “There was a lion cub on the balcony of a house. As soon as we found out the tenant was asked to leave and take the little lion away as soon as possible because it is forbidden”.
The tenant of the apartment removed the lion, which meant another concern for the animal protectors as the cub, aged about three months, It looked in bad shape as confirmed by a Qatari vet to the English Mirror.
And now add to that the ignorance of where the kitten is.
Source: Clarin
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