{"id":126643,"date":"2025-11-09T19:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126643\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T19:01:07","slug":"huha-nz-races-to-save-last-lions-at-kamo-wildlife-sanctuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/126643\/","title":{"rendered":"Huha NZ races to save last lions at Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bolton Equities director Laurie Margrain yesterday said they were working with a number of prospective parties and while there was nothing conclusive as yet, there were positive possibilities.<\/p>\n

Huha NZ chief executive Carolyn Press-McKenzie\u2019s hope they would be able to pull off a miracle was still intact yesterday, despite originally being given the weekend to find a solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had some wonderful feedback and some interest,\u201d Press-McKenzie said. \u201cSo right now, we\u2019re just talking with the owners around a realistic timeline so that we can process this interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

As of yesterday, Huha NZ was waiting to hear back from Bolton Equities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe owners have been amazing,\u201d Press-McKenzie said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been really open to what we\u2019re doing … they want a good outcome too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some people had shown interest in buying the 32.5ha property listed on the market in August this year<\/a> but potential investors had come forward too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean it\u2019s still early days in their conversations but there\u2019s definitely hope and potential,\u201d Press-McKenzie said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut until the dotted line is signed, we would love for people to get hold of us if they can help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Press-McKenzie hoped Huha NZ was working fast enough but said the charity would be given time to do this properly and in the right way.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re happy with whatever the solution is as long as it factors in the health and safety of the lions and whoever it is is the right fit. That\u2019s the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sanctuary closed to the public on November 2. Press-McKenzie said if the lions were able to stay, the park would not reopen to the public and no breeding or new animals would be introduced.<\/p>\n

Kamo Wildlife Sanctuary facility operator Janette Vallance said last week that the decision to euthanise two of the lions had been made with \u201cdeep care and consideration\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bolton Equities director Laurie Margrain yesterday said they were working with a number of prospective parties and while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1975,19699,156,1444,2883,87995,74025,685,2193,52169,111,139,69,8143,16511,10715,8808,60895,11590,84631,8229,2044,61,57767,6123,406],"class_list":["post-126643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-at","tag-cats","tag-entertainment","tag-famous","tag-hope","tag-huha","tag-kamo","tag-last","tag-lion","tag-lions","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-races","tag-remains","tag-running","tag-sanctuary","tag-save","tag-spared","tag-they","tag-time","tag-to","tag-whangreis","tag-while","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}