As we stand at the 11th hour, time is running out and radical, creative, love in action is required.

This is what you can do TODAY.

Write or call your local member and ask them where animals are on their agenda. For the Love of Wildlife worked with Jason Wood MP, taking the issue of captive breeding and canned hunting to the Federal Government which resulted in  a ban on importation of lion trophies and body parts, a global first.  France, the Netherlands and the US have followed our lead.

With less lions in the wild that rhinos, it’s imperative that we continue working on protecting and saving lions and their habitat. We’re fiercely against trophy hunting and given that there are only 5 viable lion populations left, as few as 15,000 lions in total across all Africa, we cannot afford killing for fun. Despite the hunting myth; that they only take out the oldest and weakest animals, no trophy hunter wants a scraggly old animal hanging on their wall. They take the best specimen which weakens the genetics of a pride, leaving prides vulnerable – more than 20 individuals can die after a pride leader has been shot.

Despite the argument that captive breeding lions takes pressure off wild populations, 8000 lions in 200 farms in South Africa alone, cubs are stolen from prides (who are run down and killed) to reinvigorate the genetics of farmed lions. Breeding lions which are hand raised and tame to be rented out to tourist attractions, when too old the pet are returned to horrific conditions, waiting to be bought online for a hunter to kill.