NEWS 13/03/2014
A message of support for the Global March for Lions from Lennox Lewis
We are delighted to receive the following message about canned lion hunting from Lennox Lewis (nicknamed “The Lion”), the former world heavy weight boxing champion:
“LionAid -I think this practice is despicable. this is not hunting and those who pay for the opportunity to kill these majestic animals are cowards!”
Thank you Lennox! Your support is greatly appreciated.
NEWS 10/03/2014
LionAid are delighted today to have received the following message from Simon King in support of the Global March for Lions:
“The African Lion. No other creature embodies the qualities of power, charisma and beauty quite like it. And all over South Africa, lion breeding facilities offer visiting guests the opportunity to walk with and pet these unique symbols of wild majesty. But the tragic truth is that the majority of these same captive lions are being bred for one thing and one thing only; to suffer an ignominious fate at the hands of a hunter who is prepared to pay to snuff the spark of life from the king of beasts, and to do so in a confined area.
Everything about the loathsome practice of canned hunting is wrong. It promotes the dangerous sense of dominion that some humans have over all other living things. It promotes the industry of killing these apex predators whose very existence in the wild is itself under threat, and whose wild populations have been, and still are, the target of hunting safaris in many countries in the African continent. It sends the message to all communities in Africa that the lion is a commodity that may be exploited for personal gain or eradicated if it presents a hurdle to human development. And, perhaps the most obscene feature of canned hunting, is that it betrays the trust of an animal, raised in captivity believing its captors were its friends and allies, only to be violently killed by the mindless actions of another human being.
There is no place in our global society for this obscene practice. Canned hunting must end, and it must end today.”
Simon King OBE
NEWS 03/03/2014
We are delighted to have been in contact with Roger Cook whose award-winning “Cook Report” broadcast on British Television a programme called “Making a Killing” on the 6th May 1997. For the first time, it brought the hideous canned lion hunting industry in South Africa to the world’s attention with Roger Cook posing as a tourist hunter, to be taken on a hunt for lions and specially imported tigers.
We are delighted that John Rendall (remember his famous reunion with Christian the Lion?) flew in from Kenya, especially to march with us at the Global March for Lions on the 15th March 2014.
John has already sent this message of support:
“Dear Lion Aid
Congratulations on your continued efforts to raise public awareness in the crisis facing lions.
Rhinos and Elephants are very much on peoples’ radar thanks to high profile events like the recent conference at Lancaster House, due to the input of the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cambridge, but lions are being overlooked.
There are more Rhinos in the wild than there are lions!
I am currently in Kenya but will be back for your March where I look forward to meeting LionAid supporters.
Well done LionAid
John Rendall
Trustee
George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust”
On March 15th 2014, the world united in a Global March for Lions.
Join us – be a voice for our lions. Let’s restore their pride – in the wild – as nature intended. Help us to ban canned hunting – an international disgrace.
We will call on our governments to BAN the deplorable Canned Hunting Industry. We will raise awareness to educate the rest of the world regarding every stage of the life-cycle of torture of a canned lion.
The world needs to know – stop supporting the cub-petting & walk with lions experience – the first steps of untold misery for cubs ripped away from their mothers soon after birth.
The fraudulent luring of ignorant volunteers who pay for the “privilege” to “care for” the cubs – all destined to be killed in an enclosed camp where they will have no way of escape. Often shot numerous times to prevent “spoiling” the trophy with a shot in the head, which will be mounted on a foreign wall and the bones exported to Asia for bogus medicine – all for top dollar.
Join us and help us expose this crime – a crime against the very essence of morality. A crime against nature, a crime against Africa, a crime against humanity!
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This page will be updated regularly with further news about the March so keep checking in……
