Nearly all wild species are available for trophy hunting — even threatened species like African lions and elephants — it is just a question of money. This includes an extreme form of trophy hunting known as "canned hunting," where animals are trapped in fenced areas and simply shot, allowing for an guaranteed and quick trophy.
Similar to there being more captive tigers living in America than remain in the wild, there are an estimated 10, to 12, captive lions in South Africa. Bred on over farms, this number far exceeds the estimated 3, wild lions that live in nature reserves and national parks in the country.
For the thousands of captive-bred African lions, their life of suffering begins shortly after birth. Before becoming a trophy, lions are bred and raised on breeding farms. On these farms, cubs are quickly removed from their mothers and used as photo props for tourists or raised by volunteers who mistakenly believe they are contributing to the conservation of lions in the wild.
The cubs are frequently ill due to stress brought on by constant contact with humans, poor nutrition, and terrible living conditions, which can lead to behavioral disorders as well as dangerous interactions with the public.
Being raised by hand, the lions hardly demonstrate any shyness or fear of humans, making them easier to shoot. After roughly four years, the lions reach the desired trophy age and are offered elsewhere to hunters for shooting or simply killed for their bones. By participating and paying for these activities — like cub petting or taking walks with lions — volunteers and tourists unknowingly support the inhumaneness of forced lion breeding and the canned hunting and lion bone trade industries.
We campaign to end the captive breeding of lions and other predators for canned hunting and other forms of commercial exploitation. More than 8, captive-bred lions are kept in more than breeding facilities in South Africa, where they are exploited for profit at every stage of their lives.
In the lion breeding industry, paying volunteers are recruited to help hand-rear captive-bred lion cubs under the false impression that they will eventually be released into the wild.
Tourists pay to take selfies while petting cubs or walking with lions. Ultimately, many of the animals will be shot by paying hunters, and their bones and other body parts sold into local and international trade. On the other hand, campaigners say that having been captive-bred, the animals are not as wary of people as wild ones would be.
In general, hunters pay less than they would for hunting a wild animal. In South Africa, in the past decade or so, there has been a massive growth in the trade of bones from captive-bred lions for the East Asian market.
This is currently legal under CITES regulations, and in , the Government allowed a quota of skeletons to be exported. Until recently, the majority of people using canned hunting facilities were from the USA, but in , lions were listed on the US Endangered Species Act, and — as a result — the importing of lion trophies was banned.
According to Born Free , the number of lions trophies brought into the USA fell from in to just 10 in Not yet — there has been an increase in trophies imported into Europe and Russia over the same time frame. Lions are sold from one to the other, until their bones are traded to the Far East. Having said that, for the past year, there has been a zero bone quota, meaning — theoretically — no trade has taken place.
Hunters can mainly take heads, horns or antlers of the animal they have killed, but they can also take the meat if they want. Hunting ranches offer taxidermy and meat processing services.
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