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Lions Threatened or Protected Species

BCR by BCR
May 22, 2013
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Lions Need Your Voice Now!

 

We have until 15th June 2013 to give input on the proposed new TOPS regulations.

If you wish to give input, and you’d like us to help lions, please send a quick and easy letter here:  http://catlaws.com

 

CANNED LION HUNTING AND THE NEW TOPS REGULATIONS

 

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The Department of the Environment has published amendments to the Threatened or Protected Species( TOPS) regulations (and given the public 60 days to file comment. 60 days ending 15th June 2013.) Campaign Against Canned Hunting, the NGO that has spent more than a decade exposing the abuses of lion farming and canned lion hunting, has extracted from the 101 page document those provisions that affect lions and comments upon them below.

Main Criticism:-

If the TOPS regulations are intended to protect biodiversity, then they can accurately be described as cosmetic, misdirected and irrelevant. Canned lion hunting is an industry whose whole business model violates the Animals Protection Act of 1962. Imagine the public outcry if livestock farmers allowed hunters to come on to their land and use their sheep or cattle for target practice. There would be a public boycott of S.A. meat and meat products. Consumers would be up in arms. Yet the TOPS regulations wrongly assume that canned hunting (the use of livestock for target practice) is not illegal – and then provides some cosmetic restrictions, when it ought to be banning the whole lion farming industry.

2. Proposed amendments to the TOPS regulations seek to stop the current abuses of shooting arrows into elephant and rhino – but bow hunters may continue to shoot their arrows into lions, leopards, and buffalo.

3. Lion farms will no longer be permitted to let hunters shoot tame lions in their enclosures, or even in an ‘adjacent’ camp, but so long as the target animal is moved out of its enclosure and in to the next-but-one camp, hunters are free to shoot as many arrows or bullets as they wish in to their living target. See how cosmetic this is: how is biodiversity affected whether the tame lion is shot in this camp or that? Who cares?

4. There are other meaningless restrictions listed in the TOPS regulations. For example, hunters may only set a pack of dogs on to a tame lion if it has been wounded first.

It is quite possible that even these feeble and inadequate ‘protections’ are invalid and unenforceable. The Supreme Court of Appeal has already determined that lion farming is ‘a closed circuit’ which has nothing to do with conservation. The industry therefore falls outside the jurisdiction of the department of the Environment, and in the purview of the department of Agriculture.

So, just as Minister van Schalkwyk’s attempt to impose a 24- month wilding rule upon lion farmers was held to be outside his powers, so even the pretence of protective conditions described above can be struck down by the courts. I have posted a blog explaining why I think that the Supreme Court judgment is wrong, and that lion farming very much threatens conservation of wild lions.

http://www.cannedlion.org/content/mero-motu-and-extinction-lions-southern-africa

 

In any event, collapsing provincial conservation structures do not have the capacity to monitor compliance.

 

The TOPS regulations ought to be about protecting biodiversity. But when it comes to lion farming, there is only one provision that is remotely related to biodiversity; one which seeks to ban the current practice of capturing wild lions. (Lion breeders need to introduce fresh blood into captive lion populations to combat captivity depression and inbreeding.)

 

By facilitating lion farming and canned hunting, the TOPS regulations show how irrelevant government has become. Government has become background noise and change will have to come from civil society. The TOPS regulations are not worth the paper they are printed on.

 

Conservationists must come together to get the USA and Europe to ban the import of lion trophies, and to persuade the public not to indulge in cub-petting or to volunteer at lion farms posing as ‘wildlife sanctuaries.’

Only when the flow of dollars has been cut off will this evil industry finally be brought to an end.

 

*For a more detailed look at the relevant sections of the TOPS regulations, go to http://www.cannedlion.org/content/tops-regulations-proposed-amendments-affect-lions

 

We get so many requests for our presentation on canned lion breeding in South Africa that we have posted a copy to Dropbox. Anyone can watch it and download it from here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/e2pwtrq6hrwmiso/CACH%20presentation%205%20min.avi

 

Chris Mercer and Bev Pervan

Campaign Against Canned Hunting, Sec 21 NGO

www.cannedlion.org

Co-authors of:

Kalahari Dream www.kalahari-dream.com

For the love of Wildlife www.fortheloveofwildlife.com

 

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One response to “Lions Threatened or Protected Species”

  1. Monica Spires says:
    May 22, 2013 at 2:31 pm

    Protect Wild Lions.

    You have until June 15 to make yourself heard for the lions.
    http://bigcatrescue.org/lions-threatened-or-protected-species/
    http://www.insideedition.com/investigative/6356-inside-edition-investigates-lion-meat-on-menus

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