South Africa: The Captive Lion Breeding Industry Puts Conservation and Public Health At Risk

opinion

South Africa is replicating China's policies that resulted in the Covid-19 outbreak, including mandates promoting domesticating and breeding wild species.

South Africa's captive lion breeding industry will go down as one of the worst chapters in the sustainable use book of conservation. Horror stories of disease-ridden lions living in squalor made international headlines and forced the country to take a hard look at how the industry is impacting its national brand.

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