CANNED HUNTING & LION FARMING
Watch our award-winning animated short film, about the reality of life for many lions in #SouthAfrica. #CannedHunting is the hunting of wild animals (mostly #lions) in a confined area from which they cannot escape. In South Africa, it is not only legal, it is flourishing. 8,000 or more captive-bred lions and other #predators languish in as many as 300 breeding facilities,
https://www.bornfree.org.uk/canned-hunting/
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where they are exploited for profit at every stage of their lives. Unwitting paying #volunteers are recruited to help hand raise captive-bred lion cubs, on the false premise that they will be released into the wild as part of a lion conservation initiative. #Tourists pay to take #selfies while petting cute cubs or walking with lions. Ultimately many of the animals will be transferred to canned hunting facilities to be shot by paying #TrophyHunters ,
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and their bones and other body parts will be sold into local and international #trade, often through illegal traders and #traffickers.
The animals involved are habituated to people from an early age, often through being hand-reared and bottle-fed, so they are no longer naturally fearful of people, making them easy targets for a rifle or bow when it comes to the #hunt.
The international community has called on #SouthAfrica to shut down its canned hunting
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and commercial #predator #breeding industry, many #HuntingOrganisations condemn the practice, and even the South African government recognises that the industry makes no contribution to wildlife conservation and is entirely profit-driven.
After years of pressure from #BornFree and others, the South African government finally seems to be listening, and has published draft policy papers on #WildlifeManagement which include plans to close down the lion breeding industry.
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Most recently, the Minister for Environment established a Task Force to advise on how #LionBreeders might be persuaded to leave the industry voluntarily.
Born Free believes that if South Africa is to be regarded as a responsible and ethical #custodian of its #wildlife, and a country that cares about wildlife elsewhere in #Africa and across the globe, urgent action needs to be taken to bring an end, in an intelligent and humane way,
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to the captive breeding and canned hunting of lions and other wild animals, and the sale of their bones and other body parts into international markets.
There is a long way to go, but we are working hard with our partners in South Africa and beyond to make this vision a reality.
- #BornFree 🦁
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