As we continue to remind the world that it’s now 10 YEARS since Cecil was killed and yet we STILL allow hunting trophies into the UK, we were once again in the UK Parliament yesterday ( our second event there in less than a week) to show what trophy hunting looks like and how it continues to…
Last week, we published our 2025 Synthesis of Lion Numbers in Africa and Range States’ Capabilities to Conserve their Lion Populations.
The figures presented revealed an estimated total of 13,014 lions in eastern and southern Africa. Furthermore, they reported a critically low figure of 342 lions…
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Westminster, London – On Tuesday the 1st July,
the day that Cecil the Lion was killed by a trophy hunter 10 years ago, a significant meeting was held in Westminster, organised by Eduardo Goncalves of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting and Christine Macsween from LionAid, to commemorate the 10th…
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The LionAid 2025 compilation of lion populations remaining in Africa estimates a total of 13,014 lions in eastern and southern Africa and 342 in western and central Africa where resident lions are highly genetically distinct. This is a substantial decrease…
A few days ago, we posted a blog on the effects of anthropogenic (human-mediated) mortality on Africa’s ever-decreasing wild lion populations. In that report we highlighted a growing threat – the direct poaching of lions for body parts used locally in African nations as “muthi” (traditional…
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Directly or indirectly, the African wild lion population, already decreasing in numbers across the continent, remains under great threat from human-mediated (anthropogenic) causes. Below is a short list of such anthropogenic sources of mortality, some direct, some indirect, and reasons why LionAid is concerned about the rather complacent attitude taken by local authorities and international
The impact of commercial poaching, fuelled by demand from Asian traditional markets, is well known. For example, rhinos poached for their horns has decimated populations in Kruger National Park, and interventions by park rangers and deployment by soldiers from the South African Defence Force have…
Whenever trophy hunting or “sport hunting” is discussed in the scientific literature, the subject is generally prefaced by a mention that the issue is “highly divisive”, “polarizing” and “controversial”. Nevertheless, proponents continue to promote “benefits” of trophy hunting, despite their own…
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Friends, animal lovers, and compassionate people concerned about wildlife conservation,
We’re on the cusp of a major victory for lion conservation! For some time now, our petition on Change.org, calling on the UK government to ban the import of lion trophies, has been gathering incredible momentum….
Roar for Change: Help Us Cross the Finish Line to Ban Lion Trophy Imports into the UK! Read More »
The upcoming 10th anniversary of the repulsive killing of Cecil the lion.
On July 1st 2015 Walter Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota USA made an attempt to trophy hunt a very well known lion called Cecil just outside Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe. Palmer chose to use a compound bow from a hide and…
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Reported by the Conservation Action Trust, as recently related by the news outlet Daily Maverick, captive lion hunting still occurs in South Africa. In 2023 a total of 521 lions were shot for trophies, and the vast majority (468) were hunts conducted in North West, a province renowned for its…
While a trophy hunting import ban into the UK has been a manifesto priority under two different governments now, no progress has been made. It has been left to individual Members of Parliament to put forward proposals, all have eventually been defeated. Mr Henry Smith MP perhaps came closest, his…
Why has the UK Government still not brought in a lion trophy import ban? Read More »
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