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Thai Police Arrest Pet Shop Owner With 14 White Lions
Animals  (tags: wildlife trade, lions, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, abuse, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, animals )

Cal
- 7 days ago - straitstimes.com
Thai police said on Monday that they had discovered more than 200 live wild animals including monkeys, tortoises and 14 white lions during a raid on a house in the capital Bangkok
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Lions Bred to Be Shot in South Africa's 'Canned Hunting' Industry
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animalcruelty, lions, canned hunting, wildlife, wildanimals, abuse, cruelty, death, animals, animaladvocates, animalrights )

Cal
- 7 days ago - theecologist.org
This video explores the shocking and lucrative industry of canned hunting, which astonishingly remains legal....
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Lions Bred to Be Shot in South Africa's 'Canned Hunting' Industry
Animals  (tags: Animal Welfare, Africa, South Africa, huntting, lions, wildlife, Wild world with Patrick Barkham, video )

Judy
- 14 days ago - guardian.co.uk
Lions bred to be shot in South Africa's 'canned hunting' industry - video
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TAKE ACTION NOW! STOP BIG GAME LION HUNTING
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, lions, animaladvocates, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, endangered, habitat, killing, humans, animalcruelty )

Cal
- 34 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
In 2012 more than 600 lions were killed by trophy hunters.
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Stop Big Game Lion Hunting -PLEASE SIGN!!!
Animals  (tags: lions, trophy hunting, endangered, animal advocates, animal rights, animal welfare, protection, wild animals, wildlife )

Julie
- 35 days ago - signon.org
Trophy hunting is big business in South Africa, worth $91.2 million a year, according to the Professional Hunters Association of South Africa. Foreign tourists pay up to $40,000 to shoot a lion.
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King No More: The Tragic Plight of Lions in Africa
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, LIONS, animaladvocates, endangered, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, humans, habitat )

Cal
- 37 days ago - spiegel.de
Lions are becoming a threatened species. Trophy hunters and the loss of savannah grasslands have drastically reduced the number of prides. Scientists and conservationists are calling for improved protections for lions -- even if that means fenced-in enclo
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Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa: STOP BIG GAME LION HUNTING ACTION
Animals  (tags: lions, animalcruelty, protection, food, wildlife, big game hunting, South Africa, lion bones, Zuma )

Nancy
- 58 days ago - change.org
"As the price of bones is rising steadily, some breeders have started slaughtering their own lions, without obtaining a permit or getting a vet to put the animal to sleep," says a fraud inspector. "But with the present wave of rhino poaching, we've..."
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King of Extinction? Lions Could Be Gone in 10 to 20 Years
Animals  (tags: endangered, lions, extinction, animaladvocates, animalwelfare, animals, cats )

Cal
- 58 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Today there may be as few as 20,000 lions left. And if the situation doesn't change dramatically, we could be looking at extinction within 10 to 20 years.
24 comments
India:Shift Asiatic Lions From Gujarat to Madhya Pradesh
Animals  (tags: wildlife, lions, suffering, protection, humans, extinction )

Jill
- 63 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Supreme Court rejected Narendra Modi government's refusal to allow translocation of lions. The state had said these animals were pride of Gujarat. The court said Asiatic lions were extremely endangered and all efforts against extinction should be tried
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The End of Wild Africa?: Lions May Need Fences to Survive ?
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, lions, animaladvocates, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, endangered, habitat, killing, humans, animalcruelty, endangered )

Cal
- 103 days ago - news.mongabay.com
In order for dwindling lion populations to survive in Africa, large-scale fencing projects may be required according to new research in Ecology Letters
13 comments
TAKE ACTION NOW! Save the South African Lion
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, animaladvocates, LIONS, lions, killing, protection, wildlife, wildanimals, environment, humans, habitat, slaughter, cruelty, animalcruelty, animalrights, AnimalWelfare )

Cal
- 112 days ago - ipetitions.com
Wild lion populations in South Africa now number less than 2000 and soon be will only be able to see these magnificent beasts in zoos. Let's get together, and like Zambia and Botswana, get them to put a ban on issuing hunting permits for the big cats in S
92 comments
Stop Breeding Camps of Lions
Animals  (tags: lions, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, cats, conservation, endangered, extinction, investigation, killed, killing, protection, sadness, wildanimals, wildlife )

Ruth
- 113 days ago - change.org
Lions are on the down side to extinction and in with in the last few years the decline of lions have been from 150 000 to 23 000 within 10 years. BE THE VOICE FOR THEM NOW!
41 comments
Genetics Experts Discover New Lion Subspecies in Squalid Conditions
Animals  (tags: animalwelfare, animals, lions, animaladvocates, wildlife, wildanimals, protection, endangered, habitat, killing, humans, animalcruelty, endangered )

Cal
- 134 days ago - news.mongabay.com
Many long suspected that the fifteen languishing lions kept within the archaic Addis Ababa Lion Zoo in Ethiopia were not your average lions. The lions are descended from the private lion collection of the last Ethiopian ruler, Emperor Haile Selassie
15 comments
Save African Lions From Extinction By Listing Them as An Endangered Species! PLEASE SIGN!!!
Animals  (tags: animalrights, LIONS, protection, Endangered, species, notFood, crime, animaladvocates )

Julie
- 142 days ago - change.org
Listing them would not only keep lion meat off American plates but would save thousands of lions by addressing one of the biggest threats to the African lion population -- trophy hunting.
137 comments
Urgent: African Lions in Crisis
Animals  (tags: lions, AnimalWelfare, conservation, wildanimals, wildlife )

Nicole
- 152 days ago - votervoice.net
Please submit comments in favor of an ESA listing for the lion by January 28th. Courtesy of Big Cat Rescue. Please sign!
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