Meet the Lions of Kandahar – video

Three of the four lions rescued from smugglers in Afghanistan seen here resting in the shade of their enclosure at the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan on May 11 2017. Ivan Flores for The National

Six endangered white lions were rescued in Kandahar from the hands of smugglers. Four of them now live in Kabul Zoo, awaiting the arrival of the remaining two. Dubbed the “Lions of Kandahar”, the four new inhabitants of the zoo have been drawing crowds.