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INFORMATIONLEARN MORE ABOUT THE EXPLOITATION OF LIONS AND HOW
BORN FREE ARE HELPING TO TACKLE IT AT BORNFREE.ORG.UKA CRUEL ENDING
Ultimately, many of the lions will then be
transferred to canned hunting facilities
where paying hunters will kill them in
a confined area – with a bullet, arrow,
spear or whatever weapon they choose.
Having been raised around people, the
lions have no natural fear of the hunters,
and will usually not try to escape.
It’s a brutal and callous death. But
the indignity doesn’t end there: the
animals’ bones and other body parts
are then often sold into local and
international trade. South Africa has
been exporting lion bones and skeletons
from captive lion breeding facilities
since 2008. Between 2008 and 2015, it
declared exports of more than 5,000 lion
skeletons, mainly to the Far East where
the bones and body parts are used in
traditional medicines. In some cases, the
lions are specifically reared for the bone
trade, and there have been tragic reports
of malnourished and diseased animals
being held on farms prior to slaughter.IMAGES: © georgelogan.co.uk, © Pippa Hankinson
REASONTOHOPE
TheUK-basedinternationalwildlife
charityBornFreeiswhollyopposedto
cannedhunting.Thecharityworksto
endthecaptivebreedingoflionsand
otherpredatorsforcannedhuntingand
otherformsofcommercialexploitation.
BornFreerecentlyrescueda lionfrom
thecannedhuntingindustry.Hewas
movedtoa permanenthomewhere,forthe
firsttimeinhislife,heisina safelocation
wherenoonecanhurthimagain.Sadly,
duetohisbrutalpastasa captive-bred
lion,hecanneverbereleasedintothewild.
That’swhyheneedsBornFree’scare.