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Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:42 pm
by Flutterby
Richprins wrote:Ja...it is not illegal, and lion are not endangered.
Have you read this:
Wild lions near extinction
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:51 pm
by Mel
The lion population is decreasing according to IUCN
http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15951/0
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:52 pm
by Flutterby
Although these breeders would probably say they are helping lion numbers.
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:52 pm
by Richprins
Numbers are fine in SA!
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:10 pm
by Dewi
So are rhino numbers if you listen to some of the spin out there.
Lion numbers are crashing drastically throughout Africa.
This survey below estimates 32,000 left, but I have also seen figures of 23,000 and declining quoted. Will try to find the source for the lower figure.
http://lionalert.org/page/Lion_Population_2012
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:12 pm
by Dewi
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:35 am
by Flutterby
Thanks Dewi - scary reading!
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:00 pm
by Richprins
Initial article pertains to SA?
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:17 pm
by Dewi
It quotes the Lion population estimates for Africa which, as far as I am aware, incluses the bit in the South. -O
Re: Demand for lion bones offers SA breeders a lucrative ret
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 9:26 pm
by Richprins
No, the first post on this thread!
