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Animal protection organizations roar to shun South Africa’s Big Cat Scam this World Animal Day
Humane Society International/Africa and FOUR PAWS South Africa expose the captive lion breeding industry and ask tourists and residents to help #ProtectLions.
The commodification of captive bred lions in South Africa for their bones has been ongoing since 2008, with the skeletons predominantly exported to Southeast Asia.
Serious welfare concerns persist in the captive breeding and keeping of indigenous and exotic predators for commercial exploitation, particularly with the increasing profit-driven commodification of lion products.
