The world’s leading natural and climate scientists, in reports that are dropping at the rate of two a month, are telling us to look to indigenous wisdom if we want to leave our children an inhabitable planet. But what do these scientists mean? An international gathering in the Timbavati white lion reserve, framed around the...
Blog Post by Linda Tucker In 2015, more than 42 international commercial airlines made history by refusing to carry body parts of dead lions as cargo. This landmark response to the international public outcry followed mass-media exposure of atrocities associated with lions. Commercial trophy hunters (notably the toothy American dentist, Walter Palmer) were luring majestic lion kings...
“Community perspectives on benefit-sharing and the ethics of hunting in the western boundary of the Kruger National Park” Presentation by: Jason A Turner, MSc Wildlife Management Director of Ecology & Conservation Global White Lion Protection Trust IN SUMMARY: The APNR and SANParks Agreement needs to shift in line with international precedents so as to: 1.Respect rather than dismiss Indigenous...
“Community perspectives on benefit-sharing in the western boundary of the Kruger National Park” Presentation by: Linda Tucker, CEO and Founder, Global White Lion Protection Trust, MACantab IN SUMMARY: “Benefit-sharing” in this critically important ecosystem should not be separated from “ecologically sustainable” principles inherent in Indigenous Knowledge Systems of the stakeholders both in this region, and further afield. From an Indigenous...
No copyright infringement is intended Review by Linda Tucker, Founder and CEO Global White Lion Protection Trust Imagine for a moment that your puppy, raised as part of your family, is snatched from you and sold into the dog meat trade? What would you do? Take a deep breath… and prepare yourself for a family movie which “opens the...
For the Global White Lion Protection Trust, South African Parliament’s announcement yesterday that it would be clamping down on the Canned Hunting and lion bone trade represents a significant triumph after two decades of intensive campaigning against the captive killing lion industry. This decision took place after a coordinated effort of opposition was created by...
Like fingerprints, every lion has unique spot patterns. No two are identical. This killing industry is not only scientifically unsound, environmentally unsustainable and fundamentally unethical, it is also culturally offensive across any and all cultures who hold Nature with love and respect. Mrs Nosipho Ngcaba - 20 July 2018 Director-General Department of Environmental Affairs Our original Letter of Objection (11...
Linda Tuckers Letter to the Joint Constitutional Review Committee. Ms Pat Jajiya Committee Section Cape Town SUBMISSION TO THE JOINT CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW...
King of Animals The White Lion as Nature intended 20/07/2018 BREAKING NEWS from The Times: Canned lion hunting 'abhorrent to African culture' Download pdf of Linda's Letter to the South African President on behalf of our lions Dear President Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, 100 Days into your presidency may have passed, and yet the salutes of praise in Africa’s great tradition that...
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2018-06-11-outrage-after-kruger-lion-baited-and-shot-by-trophy-hunter-in-neighbouring-reserve/ Last week, a male lion from the Kruger National Park was baited and trophy hunted in Umbabat Private Nature Reserve, which forms part of the Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR) and forms part of the Greater Kruger National Park. Regrettably, this high-handed ecologically irresponsible attitude to trophy hunting for commercial purposes goes back decades in the...
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