“Putting a stop to cruelty: why South Africa’s commercial captive lion industry should be shut down for good” – World Animal Protection report, August 2023
“The report adds credence to pre-existing concerns about how some of these types of facilities operate.
Specifically, that some are using legal activities – like captive breeding and canned hunting – to fuel (and potentially cover) their involvement in the illegal international big cat bone trade” – “Lion farming in South Africa: fresh evidence adds weight to fears of link with illegal bone trade,” The Conversation, 10 August 2023
Further Reading
“EXPORT OF 10 LIVE LIONS FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO THE LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC,” EMS Foundation, 10 August 2023
“South Africa’s Draft Policy Position – Elephant, Lion, Leopard and Rhinoceros,” IWB, 26 July 2021
“Submission to South Africa’s High-Level Panel – elephant, lion, leopard and rhinoceros,” IWB, 15 April 2020
“The Extinction Business- South Africa’s Lion Bone Trade,” EMS Foundation, Ban Animal Trading, July 2018
“The “800 skeletons” – “captive produced lion bone trade under the quota system”” IWB, 27 January 2017
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Appalling; one has to wonder about the mentality of those involved in this trade.
Regrettably money rules all.