I’m pleased to see that Greg Hunt, Australia’s environment minister, has announced that he is banning imports of lion body parts into Australia. The intention, as I see it, is to stop Australian citizens going to South Africa to shoot … Continue reading →
The Kenyan authorities had been desperately trying to find ways to stop the poaching of endangered wildlife species in their country. References are constantly made in the online media to the slaughter of elephants for their tusks and rhinoceroses for … Continue reading →
Several years ago, I came across the now famous video of Christian the Lion who had been born in captivity and lived in a London flat with his two owners John Rendall and Anthony “Ace” Bourke before being released into … Continue reading →
This is a photograph of a black lion. Before I saw it I had never seen a black lion before. Initially, I wondered whether the photographer had employed photo editing. I did not know for sure whether this lion was … Continue reading →
It’s about habitat. Loss of habitat. People have to give it back to the lion and other African animals. They have to leave the lion alone. If Africa goes on as it is now, within 20 years there will be … Continue reading →
If farmers in Africa put their livestock into an enclosure it would protect the animals from attacks by lions, which in turn would protect the lions from being attacked by farmers. Farmers are on lion home ranges. It is the … Continue reading →
Are you angry about the American woman who hunted and shot a lion in South Africa? The story is big news. The woman is an American TV presenter of a game hunting show Winchester’s Deadly Passion. On the television show … Continue reading →
I have a serious question for all of my readers. Do you meat eaters out there care where the meat you consume comes from? This article concerns those living in the United States, but is probably also a world wide … Continue reading →
by Michael (London, UK) Lion meat is a hoax to drum up business. That is my opinion. Or is it? This is how I came to know about and track the lion meat story. But first I want to say … Continue reading →
Date 2009: The lion range has become highly fragmented. I say this in comparing the range set out in the book, Wild Cats Of The World (Sunquists – published 2002) to the map immediately below, which I have made. The … Continue reading →
