South Africa’s tigers
Gillian van Houten and partner John Varty play with Julie, an endangered Bengal tiger being rehabilitated to live in the wild, at the Varty family’s tiger sanctuary in Philippolis, South Africa. Varty, a wildlife filmmaker and conservationist, was recovering in hospital March 29, 2012 after being attacked by one of his tigers.
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