Ligertown Lions Facing Neutering

Bannock County officials say it’s time for birth control for the lions removed from Ligertown, in Lava Hot Springs.

Last September, 19 African lions were shot after some of them escaped from the ramshackle collection of pens and cages. Another 27 lions and lion-tiger hybrids were taken to Wildlife Waystation in Southern California.

Trouble is, they are breeding.

“They have been breeding, and that is not something the complex is made for,” Sheriff Lorin Nielsen told the County Commission.