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Talk about walking into the lions den!

Alexander Pylyshenko, who owns a small zoo in Ukraine, plans to spend an entire year with two lions at his zoo.

Alexander hopes to raise awareness for lions all over the world, and to also raise $45,000 for the construction of a rehab center for lions and other big cats.

Since a year is such a long time - Alexander will split up his time with the lions. Half the time he will stay in their cage, and the rest of the time he will stay in his country house where the lions will join him!!!

This isn't the first time Alexander has done something like this.

Check out a video (above) from the first time Alexander spent an extended period of time with the kings of the jungle.

But that was only for 35 days - a lot less than a year!

Alexander isn't sure when his experiment will begin, but it should happen sometime in 2013.

Good luck, sir!!!

Tags: alexander pylyshenko, lion, lions, live, living, money, raise, year, zoo

This is so awfullll!

We previously mentioned that Dianna Hanson, 24, was killed by a lion at Project Survival's Cat Haven sanctuary in Dunlap, California.

Now we know more about what actually happened to her.

The authorities believe that the lion opened its cage with its paw and attacked the woman as she was cleaning its holding area.

The corner who examined her and spoke with investigators said:

"The lion had been fed, the young woman was cleaning the large enclosure, and the lion was in the small cage. The gate of the cage was partially open, which allowed the lion called Cous Cous to lift it up with his paw. He ran at the young lady."

The coroner then said that the lion broke her neck, probably with just one swipe of its paw.

She would've died instantly.

Though this whole situation is awful, at least she was already gone when the lion began tossing her body around.

All bites and scratches were inflicted after she was already dead.

Still, its so so sad that she was killed.

We hope the sanctuary changes its policies so that nothing like this can ever happen again.

Tags: attack, coroner, dead, died, intern, lion, sad, sanctuary

This is absolutely terrible!!

A 24-year-old girl, Dianna Hanson, was interning at Project Survival's Cat Haven sanctuary in Dunlap, California.

Sadly, while inside a male lion's enclosure one night, she was attacked!

The Sheriff's Department released a statement:

"Upon arrival, deputies observed the victim, who appeared to be severely injured, inside the African lion enclosure with an adult male African lion. Another employee had made several attempts to distract the lion away from the victim and into another enclosure prior to the deputy's arrival, but all attempts failed. Deputies shot and killed the lion to provide medical attention to the victim. The victim died at the scene."

The sanctuary is now working with the Sheriff's Department to find out exactly what happened.

It's not known if Dianna was supposed to be in the cage or not, and the circumstances of the mauling aren't fully known.

This is just so awful.

Her friends and family are in our hearts and thoughts.

Check out the video (above) to learn a little bit more about the whole awful incident.

Tags: california, dead, died, kill, killed, lion, mauled, sad, sanctuary

Yesterday, we told you Zambia was banning trophy hunting for lions.

Now, Leonardo DiCaprio and the International Fund for Animal Welfare are doing their part to help these endangered and beautiful lions.

The actor has taken a break from Hollywood to help the world. Leo posted the following on Facebook to help IFAW get the word out:

Tags: african lion, hunting, ifaw, inspiration, international fund for animal welfare, leonardo dicaprio, lion, trophy hunting, wildlife

Lion trophy imports to the States have been on the rise, and Ke$ha & the Humane Society don't like that….

Not…one..BIT!!!!

The diva and animal rights organization have teamed up to urge the public to sign a petition that will list the African lion as an endangered species.

Ke$ha tweets:

Tags: african lion, endangered, humane society, inspiration, kesha, lion, petition

Four tiny lion cubs are waking up from a nice nap and they look so ADORBz that we want to jump through our computer screens and STEAL THEM FOR OUR OWN PLEASURE!!!!

But we'll resist…..for now….

The Henley Doorly Zoo is the home to these PRESCHUZZ babes, but unfortunately, one of them isn't doing so well.

Tags: babies, cubs, cute cute cute, health, henry doorly zoo, lion, zoo

Sad…why would they allow such a thing???

Patrons at the Hangzhou Zoo in China were caught throwing snowballs at the lions….

Caught by cameras…but somehow no zoo staff saw this animal abuse being done.

Tags: animal abuse, animal cruelty, attack, china, hangzhou zoo, lion, snow, visitors, zoo