South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment took steps toward ending the country’s captive lion breeding industry, beginning by stopping new permits for new captive lion facilities.
Why do they need help?
When lions get older, farms either use them for further breeding or sell them to hunting facilities. In “canned” hunts, the lion is kept in an enclosure for trophy hunters, who can then keep the heads and skins of the animals. The lions’ bones could then be exported—South Africa was one of few countries that allow the sale of lion bones. The new recommendations would end that trade.
What's the Lion count?
South Africa counts between 8000 and 12000 lions at some 350 farms, by contrast around 3500 lions live in the wild in the country, according to the South African- based Endangered Wildlife Trust. Lions are kept in unhealthy and unethical conditions, conservations say and bred to ultimately be killed and their parts sold for trophies or for use in traditional medicines in Asia.
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