The African Lion Conservation Community’s Response to the South African Predator Association’s Letter

Big Cat Breeding at Letsatsi la Africa, Free State Province September 2017 Image Credit EMS Foundation

The African Lion Conservation Community’s Response to the South African Predator Association’s Letter

We wish to express that SAPA’s letter is fraught with inaccuracies, false statements, and a flawed viewpoint that is shaped for the economic benefit of captive lion breeders. We recommend that USFWS maintains their current position which is to ban the importation of captive-origin lion trophies. Nothing has changed in the South African context since the previous USFWS finding that can justify a change of position.

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