Photographs of the emaciated lions had been passed to the authorities

A game farm in South Africa has been raided to rescue emaciated lions that were being bred to be shot by hunters. Officials had received photographs of the starving animals in cages.

The lions were held at a private hunting farm in Alldays, a small town notorious for its so-called driven hunts where shooters fire at animals from the back of trucks.

The starving animals were seen by a German who lives near by. He took photographs of a number of the farm’s 250 lions and passed the pictures to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which sent inspectors to investigate the farm in the northern province of Limpopo.

“The lions were not receiving enough to eat and fights have been