Cape Town — Prospective hunters from overseas are willing to pay up to $60 000 - about R430 000 - to shoot a lion, but are now afraid to book for lion hunts because of the new regulations designed to prevent "canned hunting", says one of South Africa's biggest lion breeders.
Leigh Fletcher of Sandhurst Safaris in the Kalahari area of North-West Province made these comments in an affidavit which is one of several filed in support of a High Court action being brought by the SA Predator Breeders Association against the government.
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