Quote: JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South African lawmakers will seek to end the breeding of lions for trophy hunting and the trade in their bones, setting parliament on a collision course with a powerful industry.
South Africa has as many as 8,000 lions in captivity being bred for hunting, the bone trade, tourism and academic research, according to estimates by wildlife groups.
By contrast there are just 3,000 lions in the wild, living in the country's national parks where hunting is prohibited
While I detest canned lion hunting and even more detest the thought of bones from captive lions for Aisan medicine ... such a move could only be a loose loose loose situation for lion populations and conservation.
Less lions. LKess lion diveristy in dna/genes.
Less employment.
More pressure on wild lions from poachers.
More poressure for real lion hunting safaris and higher prices. More chance of lion safaris being banned completely.
Captive lions probably all killed off.
Snoobab politics proimpted by green tree hugger moron westerners.
-------------------- John aka NitroX
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Govt get out of our lives NOW!
"I love the smell of cordite in the morning."
"A Sharp spear needs no polish"
To my mind, canned lion hunting is little more than terminal ballistics testing...... I agree with NitroX. I detest the thought of canned hunting and don’t have much more love for high fence operations, where a “hunter” can pick his buffalo by the numbered tag in it’s ear....
None the less, canned lion hunting serves a purpose as evidenced by a population of 8000 that far exceeds the wild populations in RSA........ To legislate the end of canned hunting, is to my mind to set RSA on a course that will encourage poaching...... If there are people out there that want to shoot a captive raised lion, so be it. It is not something I have interest in doing, but I will elect to be non-judgmental on this one in spite of my overbearing propensity to be so disposed.
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