How you can help save the animals

SO AAP can carry on rescuing vulnerable circus animals, it needs other shelters and zoos to take in the big cats they have rehabilitated, and create space for more to be rescued.

Chris Packham and partner Charlotte Corney hope to bring five ex-circus tigers back to the UK with them, where they will spend a happy retirement at the Isle of Wight Zoo.

But to do this, they need to raise £100,000 to expand the tiger enclosure at the zoo.

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