{"product_id":"martin-clunes-a-lion-called-mugie-as-seen-on-itv1","title":"Martin Clunes - A Lion Called Mugie - As Seen on ITV1","description":"It is well into its third decade since lions roamed in the Kora\r\nNational Reserve where legendary conservationist George Adamson set up\r\na camp to rescue lions and release them back into the wild. The heart\r\nbreaking but successful story of rescuing orphaned cub Elsa became\r\ninternationally famous in the blockbuster film Born Free, based on the\r\niconic book written by George s wife Joy. Tony Fitzjohn worked closely\r\nwith George, and continues to work in wildlife conservation. He has\r\nlovingly rebuilt George s original camp, Kampi Ya Simba, in the Kora\r\nNational Reserve, abandoned after he was murdered by Somali bandits in\r\n1989. Tony picks up where he and George left off all those years ago,\r\nwith the aim of releasing captive and orphaned lions back into the wild\r\nwith the support of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Martin Clunes has had a\r\nclose friendship with Tony since they met 20 years ago when they\r\nreleased Nina, a zoo elephant, back into the wild. In this documentary\r\nMartin travels to Kenya to visit Tony and to meet his first lion cub to\r\nbe brought to the Kora camp for 25 years. Mugie, an orphaned lion cub\r\nwas found when he was just three weeks old, washed up on a river bank\r\nafter a flash flood. Martin and Tony travel 140 miles from Kora to Ol\r\nJogi, a 60,000 acre private game sanctuary for some of East Africa s\r\nmost endangered wildlife to collect Mugie. Thanks to an electric fence,\r\nthe reserve is protected against poaching, allowing the wildlife to\r\nflourish. Jamie Gaymer, the reserve s wildlife and security manager,\r\nhas been looking after the cub he named Mugie after the place he was\r\nfound, and contacted Tony to ask if he could take him. Martin says:\r\nWhile there are about 500,000, elephants, left on the continent, there\r\nare only 30,000 lions. Three years ago a mission began to bring lions\r\nback to a remote Kenyan wilderness. From day one I have had the\r\nprivilege of being a witness to this story. It s one that stirred deep\r\nchildhood memories, brought great highs and awful lows. This is the\r\ntrue story of one animal s big adventure, and one man s dream.\r\n","brand":"IMC Vision","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54300972122497,"sku":"IMC931D","price":4.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/9050\/5986\/files\/2858583.jpg?v=1747172969","url":"https:\/\/hit.co.uk\/products\/martin-clunes-a-lion-called-mugie-as-seen-on-itv1","provider":"Hit","version":"1.0","type":"link"}