![]() ![]() Zoo veterinarian Dr Husham Hussan and two zoo staff met him, beginning the rescue.Īnthony tells of his many adventures, for examples, how he found himself sleeping with fighting troops, including tank crews of the US 3rd Infantry Division in the derelict Al-Rashid Hotel, made friends with government officials, soldiers and rallied foreign mercenaries to his cause. Hundreds of animals had died, escaped, or been stolen for food. On arrival, Anthony found that a battle had been fought in the surrounding park, and that the zoo had been damaged and badly looted. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book focuses on how in early 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony, realized that there would be no one looking after the biggest zoo in the Middle East, and left his Thula Thula game reserve home in Zululand, South Africa, for war-blockaded Kuwait.Īnthony wrangled his way into becoming the first civilian, apart from media, to gain access to Iraq and then, drove a hired car from Kuwait, unarmed and unescorted, into the heart of Baghdad. The book tells of the struggle to save the Baghdad Zoo during the US-led Coalition invasion of Iraq. Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo (2007) is a book by South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony, with writer Graham Spence. ![]()
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