Couscous had been raised at Cat Haven since he was eight weeks old, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival.

BBC: Lion kills woman at private California big cat park

"Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this critical time, " said Dale Anderson, founder of Project Survival Cat Haven in Dunlap.

CNN: Lion kills worker at sanctuary in California

Project Survival said it would investigate whether safety protocol was followed.

CNN: Lion kills worker at sanctuary in California

The facility, known as Project Survival's Cat Haven, is normally closed on Wednesdays when the attack happened, and only one other worker was present during the mauling.

BBC: Lion 'escaped from cage' to kill California woman

He loves his project, but during these times of severe budget cuts at NASA, he worries about its survival.

CNN: R O C K E T M A N

The day I realized that this was what was missing, I knew that the subject of the film would be death itself, death rather than survival, a radical contradiction since in a sense it attested to the impossibility of the project I was embarking on: the dead could not speak for the dead.

NEWYORKER: Witness

Or to put it another way, there may be no long-term survival for the eurozone unless Germany is prepared to use its balance sheet to underwrite the whole project.

BBC: Practical steps to prevent eurozone meltdown