Canned Hunting - Current Status
PLEASE BE INFORMED: White Lions are not protected from being hunted to extinction. In South Africa, White Lions may be legally hunted in captivity and legally hunted in the wild.
On 1 February 2008, under mounting international pressure, the South African Government brought legislation into force to prohibit canned hunting. However, lions were specifically excluded from this prohibition, because of pressure from the canned hunting industry. As White Lions are particularly prized as canned hunting trophies, their future hangs in the balance.
For many years, the Global White Lion Protection Trust has been lobbying the SA.Government to have South Africa's natural living heritage protected by law.
An NSPCA report on the current status of canned hunting in South Africa is due to be completed shortly. The WLT will publish the report with the NSPCA's permission on this site. Check back regularly for an update.
Click on the link below and add your voice to the call for banning the slaughter of lions for their bodyparts.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_lion_slaughter_for_sex_aides_d/?bzhjFcb&v=15578
Click on the link below and add your voice to the call for banning the slaughter of lions for their bodyparts.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_lion_slaughter_for_sex_aides_d/?bzhjFcb&v=15578
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"Thank you AVAAZ! At last, responsible loving people are waking up to the Truth that has been hidden for so long… Please remember if you handle baby cubs you are supporting this killing industry…" Message from CEO, Linda Tucker. |
The life of a lion in the canned hunting industry:
A few days after the lion is born it is taken from its mother. The mother is taken away and made pregnant again, her sole purpose is to be a breeding machine for the trophy hunting outfitter. She spends her whole life giving birth and having her cubs ripped away from her, and she never gets the chance to be a mother. Once her body is useless and can no longer have cubs she iseither offered to be shot for a bargain price or just thrown in for free as part of another hunt.
When the cub is taken from its mother it is sent to a petting zoo or a volunteer project, where tourists pay to interact with the cubs. This is very distressing for the cubs who have no means of getting away, cats sleep a lot and cubs especially, but they cannot do this because of been constantlypicked up for photographs. Volunteers pay thousands of dollars to work on projects that promise that they will be one day released. Volunteers do notcare to do any research and realise that any hand raised lion in South Africa cannot be released. These volunteers believe they are doing a good thing but they are just filling the pockets of these murderers and keeping this sick industry alive.
Once the lion is no longer a cub it is sent back to the trophy hunting farm, where it can grow into a suitable trophy for a tourist to shoot.View Animal Shame Page - Comment
When it comes time for the lion to be shot, it is released into the larger enclosure. The killers drive around the enclosure looking for the tame, hand raised lion. Meat is often hung out and they wait for the lion to start eating and then open fire as it eats.
I have seen many videos of these hunts and they are shocking, any person who takes part in one of these hunts is a disgrace to the human race. Often thetame lion will be laid undreneath a tree and as it sees the people approach it just glances over and glances away, as it does not see people as a threat. The cowards open fire and take pleasure in watching the animal roll around the floor in agony, then watch the life drain out of its body.
View -Playful lioness killed - CANNED HUNT! - Comment
The aftermath is shocking as they parade the dead lion for ridiculous photos as they stand over the lifeless corpse of the tame, hand raised lion. They then return home to their countries to tell tales of how they killed a big bad dangerous man eating lion (they never mention they killed a tame, bottle fed lion inside an enclosure).
View Raised to be killed Video
Trophy hunting companies have now found another way to profit from the lions they kill, they are now starting to sell the bones to the Asian medicine market. This is the same market that has wiped many species off the face of the planet and is the biggest threat to tigers and rhino today, the scariest thing is that the South African government are allowing them to do this legally.
View Lion bone trade in Africa- Video
Avaaz recently started an advertising campaign in airports calling for president Zuma to put an end to the sick lion bone trade. It took around one week for president Zuma to order the posters be pulled down. Avaaz have started an online petition which already has over 700,000 signatures calling for an end to the lion bone trade.