Messages from the Heartlands

As a frontline conservation and leadership organisation, the Global White Lion Protection Trust has been pioneering and modelling ecocentric initiatives since its inception in 2002. Alongside its successful scientific reintroduction program of White Lions who were one generation removed from their ancestral homelands, the Trust initiated a multi-level strategy to re-establish the cultural importance of...

Welcoming Gavin te Brake, General Manager of the Global White Lion Protection Trust We are proud to announce the arrival of Gavin te Brake, who joined our team in 2023 as General Manager of the Trust. With his dynamic energy and passion for Nature, Gavin has a knack for leadership and creative thinking. Playing a critical...

South Africa’s Heritage Day gives each one of us the perfect opportunity to acknowledge the White Lions as a living heritage in the hearts and minds of humanity. Moreover, it reminds us of our interconnectedness with Nature and our role in handing over the Flame of Life to future generations, as indigenous peoples did for thousands of years before us.

Journalist Shamin Chibba was first invited to the Global White Lion Protection Trust in 2016 with a team of media professionals in preparation for his coverage of the CITES COP17. What he found was a community organisation working tirelessly to protect the sacred lions. He returns in 2023 to speak to its CEO, Linda Tucker, in a series of Q&As. The first looks at how, in the face of merciless exploitation of our natural world, we can turn rage into positive action.

In the second StarLion featurette, Linda remembers her Lion Guardian, Ingwavuma I. The “spirit-in-form” lion had entered Linda’s dreams as a child and, later, introduced himself in the flesh – a reminder of the primordial agreement through which we were gifted the use of Fire and all that it represents by way of the continuity of Life.

Earth Day (22 April) holds a lot of meaning in White Lion territories. Not only is it a day set aside for honouring Mother Gaia, but it also marks the anniversary of the passing of two great Lion mentors in my life: Maria Ndlovu (Khosa), the Lion Queen of Timbavati, and Jan Si Ku, honoured...

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