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THE UGLY QUESTION:

WHY ARE MOST OF SOUTH AFRICA'S LIONS BEHIND BARS?

Did you know? There are some 300-odd farms in South Africa where lions are bred in cages for the hunting industry. This cruel and cynical activity is legal in South Africa. It is called canned hunting. Hunting in a can. Instant. No chase, no escape, no mercy. Shot in a fenced camp.

Ask yourself. What kind of nation allows this blatantly cruel treatment of animals? Surely not the nation of Nelson Mandela! We ask you: please help us to change this

unethical activity, just as he would have done. Help our lions ~ because they are also your lions, your children's and grandchildren's lions. Help us to put a stop to canned hunting.

CACH is a registered non-governmental organisation calling for the end of canned hunting in South Africa and globally. Even the smallest donation helps our fight for the lions.

Picture What is it? A canned lion is one that is born in captivity on a commercial lion farm. It is stolen from its mother at 2 - 3 weeks old and sold to a petting destination for tourists. Months later, stressed and malnourished, the young lion is sold to a lion walking destination, also for tourists. Finally, the lion is sold to a hunter, or killed for lion bones for the East. Picture No freedom. Ever. There are 3x more canned lions than wild lions in South Africa today.For about 11,000 lions, there is not one day of freedom. Their fate is death by commerce: a hunter's bullet; or farmer's bullet. These lions are farmed in secret, to produce cheap, quick trophies for hunters, or lion bones for sale to the East. Picture Then shot. Close up. Farmed lions cannot be re-wilded. Ask us why. They never know the sanctity of a free, wild lion family. Imagine a business so dirty and secret that hundreds of lion farmers in South Africa today breed lions for blood sport and for Eastern "medicine". It is an outrage. It is man at his worst and he needs to be stopped. We ask for your help.

Lions, Bones and Bullets is an internationally acclaimed multi award winning investigation into captive lion breeding and the trades that follow from it, by well-known environmentalist Richard Peirce. ​See the film on the free streaming channel Waterbear.

Our plea is to you: have your say. Protest against this cruelty to lions. Demand change. Stand for what is right. Africa's lions are desperate for your help. Can you find it in your heart to speak for Africa's lions? Will you ROAR for the lions? ​​

No lion should be reduced to starvation at the hands of a "farmer", as this lion is. But it costs money to feed a growing lion in a cage, and to the lion farmers these noble creatures are just a commodity. Will you help us fight for justice to outlaw this cruel treatment of lions? To right a terrible wrong?

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