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The South African government has announced a landmark decision to end the country’s controversial captive lion industry which includes canned hunting, petting zoos and the commercial trade in lion bones. Whether the legal bone trade has stimulated poaching and laundering are fiercely debated questions among lion conservation experts. So too is whether ending the captive lion industry will put wild lion populations at greater risk of poaching, given that international demand for lion bone will persist.
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A new policy paper signals a more humane approach to the treatment of wild animals and an end to cruelty to lions in South Africa.
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The World Festival Premiere of investigative documentary Lions, Bones & Bullets took place last Monday, 21 June, at the 60th Monte-Carlo Television Festival in Monaco. Despite the severe COVID-19 travel and attendance restrictions, the Camille Blanc Hall in the Grimaldi Forum saw celebrities, journalists and locals alike attend the first public screening of the film. All were unanimous in their praise for Lions, Bones & Bullets.
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In the recent report provided by the High-Level Panel on the management of iconic wildlife species in South Africa, the majority of the panel recommended that the government of South Africa ban captive lion breeding. One of their reasons was the risk associated with zoonotic diseases. It is a risk that has been highlighted by several lobbying groups and individuals but is often lost beneath the layers of moral debate that tend to dominate. So what diseases are associated with lions, and how acute is the risk? A recent study analyses 148 different research papers to start providing answers to these questions.
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Environment Minister Barbara Creecy’s report on the use and protection of SA’s iconic wildlife was groundbreaking. But is there the political will to turn its recommendations into policy?