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THE SITUATION IS CRITICAL
There are fewer than 4,000 lions left in the 'wild' in South Africa, but more than 8,000 in captivity, being bred for the bullet or the arrow.
However, lion farming is a threat to wild lion prides for a number of reasons.
The ongoing capture of wild lions to introduce fresh blood into captive breeding will negatively affect the wild population, while the the explosive growth of the Asian lion bone trade, fuelled by canned hunting, will impact severely on wild lions through an increase in poaching.

THE CRUEL AND TRAGIC LIFE-CYCLE OF A CANNED LION
Lionesses are turned into breeding machines -- once spent, they go
on the 'kill list' for either trophy hunting or killed outright for the bone trade.
Cubs are torn away from their mothers soon after birth for cub-petting -- also 'rented out' to non-breeding facilities that cash in on their suffering.
Female cubs are often killed, particularly where there has been inbreeding which causes defects -- this is rife in the industry. Greed also dictates that lionesses are not desirable (read 'sufficiently profitable') trophies.
Breeders advertise to attract ignorant volunteers to help feed and care for the cubs, who pay exorbitant fees for the 'privilege' of feeding/ caring for/playing with the cubs destined to be shot.
Once too big for petting, the young lions will be used, or rented out, for the 'walk with lions' experience.
No longer suitable to 'walk with', sub-adults are crammed into overcrowded cages where they wait to die -- mostly in atrocious
conditions.
When mature and attractive as a trophy, hunters move in to shoot them in small camps, where the lions have no means of escape. To make the 'hunt' easier, the lions are often drugged before being killed.
Lastly, their heads will be cut off to mount on a wall, and the bones sold and shipped to the East for bogus aphrodisiacs and/or medicine -- for 'top dollar'!


FOR THE PRODUCTION OF THIS FILM CREDIT GOES TO:
For the footage of the breeding farms - The International Fund for Animal Welfare, (IFAW) Southern African Office, Cape Town. Contact person is Christina Pretorius. See their website http://www.ifaw.org/africa .