What a privilege it is to be talking to young students around the world about lion conservation. The above picture was taken at the end of the lesson this week with a group of nine and ten year old students in an appropriately named town, Nuevo Leon in Mexico. These bright young students listened attentively […]
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Marching to victory? Yesterday we were invited to a private meeting with the Under Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Rory Stewart to discuss the next steps in the UK’s response to the importation of lion trophies into the UK.As you will remember we last met him on December 3rd following the
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We were delighted to feature in a Canterbury College newsletter recently. “Higher Education (degree-level) students met with a leading lion conservation charity to learn what they can do to stop lion hunting. Students on the HND Applied Animal Science and HND Animal Biology & Wildlife Conservation courses heard about LionAid’s work to save dwindling lion
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Likely to be watered down….. The deadline for proposals to be considered at the upcoming CITES Conference of Parties closed on April 27th. We can now examine the whole list, and CITES Member States and some organizations have the opportunity of sending comments to the CITES Secretariat in the coming months. LionAid was delighted to
Ten African nations want lions to be placed on CITES Appendix I Read More »
Hunters just can’t get enough CITES export records for lion trophies from South Africa (virtually all of them from canned lions) for 2014 (CITES records are always about 2 years behind in compilation) show that a record number of 1150 trophies were exported. This is a 20% increase over exports from 2013. Where did all
A bumper year for lion trophies in South Africa Read More »
First, the Netherlands announced a total ban of imports of lion trophies (and for good measure a number of other trophy hunted species like hippos and polar bears).Second, about 700 people protested on the streets of London on 30th April to encourage the UK to similarly ban the imports of lion trophies. LionAid is proud
This was a good week for lions. Read More »
We were thrilled to welcome Rumer and The Church of Malcolm to the march to stop lion trophy hunting last Saturday. Rumer and the band marched with us and they played and sang as we walked. Such a joyeous and festival atmosphere as around 700 of us joined together to call for a complete ban
Rumer supports the March to Stop Lion Trophy Hunting Read More »
Outside No 10, waiting to deliver the letter to the Prime Minister Around 700 people marched through many streets of London yesterday. Our organizations delivered a letter to UK Prime Minister David Cameron that will have results, and we can promise you that. The UK has fallen shamefully far behind in supporting a ban on
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