Leopard spotting

THREE ORPHANED leopard cubs, left abandoned in the wilds of the Sudan, are now settled into a new home in the Shamwari reserve in the Eastern Cape, thanks to the efforts of TNT International Express. The cubs, now six weeks old, were airlifted from Khartoum via Nairobi and Johannesburg to Port Elizabeth with the assistance of the Born Free Foundation.
The animals were found dehydrated and starving by a drilling team in the south of the Sudan. The operations manager decided to send them by military transport to his Khartoum office, where the general manager and his wife undertook to feed them while arrangements were being made for them to be relocated 'somewhere in the world'.
A series of faxes was distributed to various companies known to the drilling group, one of these reaching the Dubai office of TNT where it was decided to foot the bill to airfreight the trio to South Africa after the game reserve offered to take them in.
"We've had sleepless nights and hectic days organising everything at this end," says TNT's Johannesburg-based WEF Divisional manager Ryan Hounsom. "Special papers had to be drawn up and approved for them to leave the Sudan and to be allowed entry into South Africa."
Says Hounsom: "We are now looking for a special slogan for our company on the lines of 'put a tiger in your tank'!"