Tigers rescued from Argentina get new home in South Africa

The tigers’ arrival in South Africa on Saturday was the culmination of years of planning by the international animal welfare organisation Four Paws

A family of four tigers rescued from confinement in Argentina have been given a new home in South Africa (Themba Hadebe/AP)

Four Bengal tigers rescued from years of captivity in a train carriage in Argentina have been released into open-air enclosures in South Africa.

After a journey of more than 70 hours from Argentina, the tigers stepped from their crates into open-air enclosures at the Lionsrock Big Cat Sanctuary in Bethlehem in South Africa’s central Free State province.