Ignite Your LionHeart Tour – last quarter 2018 The second overseas LionHearted Leadership™ tour of 2018 started in late September with a real game-changing experience – my first TEDx Talk! “Until the Lion learns to speak, the story will be told from the hunter’s perspective.” This Ancient African proverb was the inspiration for my TEDx…
Read MoreYou may know that the original Heartlands of the White Lions is an ancient sacred site, declared protected by African kings for many hundreds of years before South Africa’s National Park was designated. It is here, in the epicenter of the Kruger to Canyons (a UNESCO Biosphere region) that the Global White Lion Protection Trust…
Read More“To A Tama !Khums Ge!!” These words, de livered by the First Nation of First Nations representatives, Chief Stephen Fritz, on behalf of the Koisan people, resounded through the assembly at the Parliamentary Colloquium last month – an urgent parliamentary review called by the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee for Environmental Affairs to assess the…
Read MoreWednesday 6 Sept was a significant day for all at the Global White Lion Protection Trust (White Lion Trust). This was the day that two very special new white lions arrived at the Tsau Conservancy. The wild born white lions were donated by Pumba Game Reserve, located in the Eastern Cape. A responsible reserve that…
Read MoreThe White Lions have a fascinating connection with Japan, where the famous artist, Osamu Tezuka, who first dreamed of the White Lions more than a decade before they were actually documented in the 1970s. He created the famous animation, Kimba the White Lion (which inspired Disney’s Lion King). To celebrate the launch of the Japanese version…
Read MoreThe Global White Lion Protection Trust in partnership with P.A.L (Protecting African Lions) will be screening the compelling full length documentary Blood Lions on the 28th November 2015 at 14h30. The screening will follow on from the March for Cecil which will be held in Trafalgar Square, London, UK at 12h00. Tickets to Blood Lions: Click Here…
Read MoreProtecting African Lions (P.A.L) and The Global White Lion Protection Trust (WLT) have joined forces under the White Lion Trust’s newly launched One United Roar (O.U.R Campaign for Lions). The campaign was launched on World Lion Day with the aim of achieving greater protection for Lions and all endangered species globally. The O.U.R. campaign is supported…
Read MoreO.U.R. LIONHEARTED CALL TO ACTION: 1 WRITE to South African Nature Conservation (DEA) and express your anger, dismay and disgust in the strongest terms possible at the legalizing of the reprehensible Lion Bones Trade in lions. Deputy Director Mpho Tjiane (CITES policy development and implementation) MTjiane@environment.gov.za 2 Support organisations that are protecting lions and their ecosystems against…
Read MoreVideo kindly created and donated by Emily Trombetta-Mabbs – Interviewer, Sumit Singh – Camera Person, Tafadzwa Mushipe – Producer/Director/Editor 3 years ago Ann Fowler, a loyal supporter of the White Lion Trust, did no running whatsoever and described herself as a ‘couch potato’! The sad loss of her mum to cancer changed all that and she decided…
Read More‘Game of Thrones’ star Jerome Flynn is urging chocolate lovers to join the battle to save Africa’s endangered White Lions with a delicious new bar specially created for the cause went on sale across the UK this month. The Global White Lion Protection Trust (WLT) has teamed up with Conscious Chocolate to make Lions Raw…
Read MoreThe whole team at the WLT were very touched when we were approached by the children from the Waldorf School in Potsdam, Germany, to raise money. Every year the Class 7 pupils put together a school theatre project, with a special story. They rewrite parts of this story to make it their own, and then…
Read MoreURGENT FUNDING TO KEEP THIS PROGRAM GOING: GLOBAL GIVING CAMPAIGN – TARGET $ 16,000 Support this highly effective inspirational program. Join us in supporting the low income community surrounding the White Lions’ pridelands, where the orphan rate is nearly 60%. Our Eco-Cubs program directly empowers more than 1000 vulnerable kids with the confidence to…
Read MoreFormer Volunteer Holds A Fundraiser in Norway Thank you to Nina Fadnes, a former volunteer in 2013 , and Elisabet in Norway for raising funds on September 8th, 2013 for the WLT. They helped raise money by selling photographic prints of white lions and animals of the African bushveld. We asked them how to put…
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