The facility wrote at the time, "Barbary lions are an extinct subspecies in the wild. They used to inhabit areas of North Africa. Nowadays, people can only find them in zoos. In the future, Safari Park Dvůr Králové would like to breed these rare beasts."

A zoo celebrated the birth of four Barbary lion cubs, marking a significant milestone for the dwindling population of this rare lion species that no longer exists in the wild.The three females and one male lion were spotted frolicking in their outdoor enclosure at Dvur Kralove Safari Park in the Czech Republic on Wednesday,

The Barbary lion once roamed freely its native northern Africa, but is currently extinct in the wild. A zoo in the Czech Republic is hoping to eventually reintroduce the breed to the wild.