Podcasts about blood lions

South Africa has the largest population of canned lions in the world - these are lions born in captivity and bred for trophy hunting. People can pay (usually tens of thousands of dollars) to hunt and shoot the animals. Now the government has said it will ban it, but hasn't said when, or what will happen to the lions. Breeders argue it is better that hunters shoot a captive-bred lion than further endanger the wild populations, but conservationists and animal welfare groups dispute this, saying wild populations of lions are in decline and that the lion farms are creating a market for canned lion hunts and encouraging the hunting of wild lions too.BBC Africa's Danai Nesta Kupemba explains what canned hunting is and why campaigners want to end the practice. We discuss the ethical considerations and why lion bones are sought after. Stephanie Klarmann, from Blood Lions, which campaigns to bring an end to the commercial captive breeding of lions, tells us why they disagree with it. Instagram: @bbcwhatintheworld WhatsApp: +44 0330 12 33 22 6 Email: whatintheworld@bbc.co.uk Presenter: Hannah Gelbart Producers: Julia Ross-Roy, William Lee Adams and Benita Barden Video journalist: Beatrice Guzzardi Editor: Rosanna La Falce

Volledige debat oor die gevange leeubedryf, na die vrystelling van die verslag deur Minister Barbara Creecy. Sy het die verslag van die ministeriële taakspan oor die "captive" leeubedryf vrygestel. Die Kabinet het die vrystelling van die verslag en sy aanbevelings vir implementering goedgekeur. Die ministeriële taakspan is in Desember 2022 aangestel, na aanleiding van 'n aanbeveling deur die Hoëvlakpaneel oor Aangeleenthede wat met die Bestuur, Teel, Jag, Handel en Hantering van Olifant, Leeu, Luiperd en Renosters verband hou. Die paneel het die sluiting van die gevangeneteelsektor aanbeveel, insluitend die aanhou van leeus in gevangenskap, of die kommersiële gebruik van leeus of hul neweproduk. Ons het gewaardeerde gaste wat by ons aansluit om insigte vanuit verskeie perspektiewe te verskaf. Vir die bedryf: Richard York - Hoof uitvoerende beampte van WRSA (Wildlife Ranching South Africa) wat die wildboer verteenwoordig. Stephen Pole - Hoof Uitvoerende Beampte van die organisasie CHASA (The Confederation of Hunting Associations of South Africa) wat die jagters verteenwoordig. Teen die bedryf: Dr Louise de Waal – oud-ministeriële taakspanlid en direkteur van Blood Lions. Dr Stephanie Klarmann – veldtogkoördineerder vir Blood Lions.

This evening on the weird and wonderful we talk about the award-winning, internationally acclaimed South African documentary, Blood Lions, which is now freely available for worldwide public viewing to further increase awareness around the exploitation of captive-bred lions and other predators in South Africa. Dr Louise de Waal, Director and Campaign Manager for Blood Lions joins to tell su more about this captivating doccie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this latest episode of That Weekend Feeling, Daron Mann speaks with Bruce Young, the director of Blood Lions, a documentary that follows a quest by environmentalists to learn the truth about South Africa's multimillion-dollar businesses of predator breeding and canned lion hunting. Policies, laws, and practices relating to the management, breeding, hunting, and commerce of lions have been changed since the film's premiere eight years ago. Young gives credit to Minister of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries Barbara Creecy who banned the controversial captive lion industry, including canned hunting, petting zoos and the commercial trade in lion bones " We knew from the start that it is going to be difficult to change the law because this is a very well established industry. But it is happening," said Young.

The trade in the South American vicūna is often used as an example of how lifting trade bans can help people and animals alike, but is it a fair comparison for the rhino horn trade debate? Namibia is planning a mass dehorning. Is the government of that country bolstering rhino horn stockpiles ahead of their next effort to open trade? A recent study answers the question of what impact does dehorning have on rhino behavior.  Rhino poaching gang sentenced to terms ranging from 16-20 years.  Two documentaries to watch out for: Rhinoman follows the story of what it is like to be a ranger on the front lines, and Blood Lions is now broadly available. Watch them! A report on convergence intelligence from Earth League International makes for good reading. Homeland Security in the USA launches dedicated unit to combats the illegal wildlife trade.

Guest: Director and campaign manager, Dr Louise de Waal See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I was gasping for every breath; hanging onto the railing so that I wouldn't pass out from the lack of oxygen, but I kept climbing because I knew that just a few steps away there was a mecca of like minded people (800+) who are changing the world.  That was the scene about a dozen times a day during my week in Jackson Hole at the Cat Summit because I live at 7 feet above sea level and Jackson Lake Lodge is close to 7,000 feet above sea level.  Between my room and both levels of the conference, it meant taking the stairs up and down three levels in between each hour long session.   The rock stars of the Cat Summit were Dereck and Beverly Joubert.  They have worked primarily in Africa on big cats for over 30 years.  They are the cofounders of the Big Cats Initiative with National Geographic and were recipients of eight Emmys, a Peabody, Panda awards, the World Ecology Award and the Presidential Order of Meritorious Service by the President of Botswana.  The Jouberts are also involved with the Great Plains Conservation Foundation which was established to protect wild land, and is presently managing over one and a half million acres in Africa.   George Schaller is a field biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and Panthera.  He has studied and helped protect such species as the mountain gorilla, tiger, giant panda, and snow leopard.  These have been the basis for his books, among them The Year of the Gorilla, The Serengeti Lion, The Last Panda, and Tibet Wild.  He continues his field work particularly in China, India, and Brazil.   Our good friend and ally at CITES, Debbie Banks from the Environmental Investigation Agency was there.  She's the Campaign Leader for Tigers & Wildlife Crime and has over 20 years of experience investigating environmental crime with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), including illegal wildlife trade, illegal mining and illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. She has developed, deployed and participated in overt and covert investigative teams to obtain incontrovertible evidence in the form of video and audio recordings, and ensured that EIA investigation findings are backed up with robust desk-based research and analysis. She has been with EIA since 1996, investigating, exposing and campaigning against the illegal and unsustainable destruction of tiger habitat, illegal trade in tigers and other Asian big cats, and tiger “farming".   We met Carlton Ward and hope to get to know him a lot better.  Carlton is a National Geographic Explorer focused on the story of the Florida panther as a call to action for protecting the Florida Wildlife Corridor – a campaign he helped establish through two 1000-mile expeditions that mapped and connected conservation priorities from the Everglades to Georgia and Alabama.   I was invited to speak by Jeff Flocken who is the North American Regional Director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare where he leads the organization's team of legislative professionals in the US and Canada advocating for global, national, and local policy initiatives on behalf of animals.  Jeff serves on the Board of Directors of the Jaguar Conservation Fund, the Steering Committee for the IUCN Tapir Specialist Group, and is an Advisor to the Grace Gorilla Sanctuary.  He is also the founder and board co-chair of the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders initiative which mentors and provides campaign training for up-and-coming leaders in the wildlife field.  He is the coauthor of the book Wildlife Heroes.   On my panel, which covered the impact media can have saving animals, using examples of Cecil Lion and the Zanesville massacre, was Ian Michler who has spent the last 27 years working as a safari operator, specialist guide, consultant and photo-journalist across Africa. Currently, he is the Consultant and Lead Character for the campaign documentary Blood Lions (www.bloodlions.org). Ian lives in South Africa where he is co-owner of Invent Africa Safaris www.inventafrica.com, a specialist safari company running trips across Africa.   Also on my panel was Brent Stapelkamp is a Zimbabwean born conservationist and wildlife photographer who has spent the last decade studying lions and specializing in mitigating the conflict between them and livestock owners in Zimbabwe. Guided by Permaculture ethics he is working with his community towards a sustained regeneration of the landscape for the betterment of both the people and its wildlife. The community trust is called "The Soft Foot Alliance".  He was the person who discovered Cecil's murder because he'd been following Cecil for years.   There were far too many celebrities in the world of big cat conservation to mention here, but not only was it global collective of those heroes, the conference was primarily held for filmmakers and those working in exciting new areas of virtual reality to meet up with the film buyers from National Geographic, Discovery, Animal Planet, and other well known and private funders.  Hundreds of films had been submitted and judged for a night of awards in the little town of Jackson.  As a panelist I was given access to all of the films and am still working my way through them.  There is so much talent out there and I'm really looking forward to Big Cat Week in December when many of these will debut.   I met a lot of very interesting people that I have scheduled for future Cat Chat shows and was able to meet people working in VR that will be able to help us move the experience of being close to wild animals out of the barbaric practice of breeding them for life as captives, to walking amongst them in a virtual world.  So many people try to tell me that their kids have to see animals in cages to appreciate them and I don't buy it.  The poor cats who are destined to live in cages are mere shadows of who they would be in the wild, so it gives the viewer no real sense of who they are, what they need, or why they are important to our own survival.  I think Virtual Reality will be able to bridge that gap.   We've started conversations, or extended friendships we already had, in order to save wild cats, in the wild, before it's too late.  Many of the people we met have risked their lives to capture the evidence of the illicit trade in big cats that is being enabled by the legal trade here and abroad.  We are committed to making the most of their sacrifices to saving wild cats and their habitats because without healthy forests we will all be gasping for air like I was on those stairs.   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk

Show Notes:S2 E19 – The Weekly News 05-12-2022 with Shannon Elizabeth, Peter Borchert & a special guest interview with Dr. Louise de Waal/Blood LionsSimon is in the USA, so Shannon and Peter are in charge. Peter is updating Rhino Review, while Shannon helped to take care of a 6-day-old baby rhino over the weekend. Peter talks about the evolution of rhinos across 55 million years. Do you know what the largest land mammal ever to have lived was?A story in Science Magazine notes that a research team believes they have found pieces of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs. Do you know how many millions of years ago that was?  During an archeological dig in Luzon in the Philippines, fossils of an “Ice Age” rhinoceros were found. Can you guess what they discovered about these bones dating back 700,000 years ago?We welcome Dr. Louise de Waal, the Director and Campaign Manager of Blood Lions, who tells us all about their new campaign #CancelCaptivity, why it is so important, and how you can help.Blood Lions launches a new campaign to urge the ministers in South Africa to implement protections for captive bred lions. Sign the Blood Lions petition.Peer-Reviewed Paper: Welfare concern associated with captive lions and the implications for commercial lion farms in South Africa.Wild Choices will help you make ethical choices about captive wildlife tourism facilities in South Africa. Bats buzz like hornets! Can you guess why?Four black rhinos were translocated to a private reserve in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. Was this really the best thing for these rhinos? What group was behind the big move?

Blood Lions Blood Lions ran on MSNBC last night in our area at 10pm, which is after my bedtime, so I taped and watched it this morning.  I cried throughout, for the suffering of these lions, but by the end I was weeping.  I couldn't even speak without crying uncontrollably.  Howie had taken Jamie and Justin to the airport at 5:30 am for their trip to be honored at the Snow Leopard Trust's celebration event, so he came in to the last 10 minutes of the film.  He held me, not knowing what to say, and I was crying so hard that I had a hard time letting him know why I was so emotional.   Of course I was crying over the brutal way big cats are bred constantly, only to have their cubs ripped away at a few days of age, to be passed around as playthings to ignorant patrons, and then warehoused in abysmal conditions until it is their turn to be trotted out in front of an evil excuse for a human, to be used as a living target.  That would make anyone with a soul cry.   The weeping however was the kind of emotional release that you see in a nation that comes to the end of a long and bloody war.  It is the combination of grieving for those who's lives were lost, for those who's lives will be forever impaired and the relief that the suffering is winding down.   When Howie first came to help the sanctuary in 2003 he began working on ways for Big Cat Rescue to become financially self sustaining so that I, and later he, could work on the issues that will end the abuse.  This was the first year the sanctuary broke even, which meant I could divert some of the time I spent growing our real estate business to support the cats, into ending the abuse at its root.   In 2003 the root cause of so much abuse appeared to be breeding cubs to be used in canned hunts.  I'd seen such a situation in Texas 6 or 7 years prior, where a legal hunting ranch for discarded zoo hoof stock, also had rows of cages of big cats.  The cages were tiny jail cells where the cats paced and frothed at the mouth.  I asked the owner why he had them and he gave me a sinister smile and said, “They are my pets.”  Back in the 90's I'd never heard the term “canned hunt” and was only just learning that people all over the country kept big cats in back yard cages.  I didn't like what was being done to the zoo hoof stock, but had my own worries in making sure we had eliminated the use of wild cats on fur farms in the United States.   Feeling pretty sure that no bobcats or lynx were being bred on U.S. fur farms any more by 2003, I directed my attention to ending the use of exotic cats in the canned hunting industry.  Over the years I'd had people tell me similar stories to mine; where they or their husbands had been to a legal game farm, but had seen big cats in tiny cages too.  Some even were reported to have tags in their ears for easy identification by the proprietors and the “hunters” who would pick the cat they wanted to shoot in a fenced area or a cage.  Not knowing quite where to start, business people tend to do what they know.  In our case, Howie and I turned to the Chamber of Commerce.   They directed us to the National Chamber, who directed us to state agencies and state legislators, who directed us to congressional leaders.  Not only did NO ONE want to talk about this, but worse they insisted it wasn't their problem, but rather was that of the people higher up the food chain.  We've spent 12 years going up and down that chain, and bringing in everyone we could think of who might have influence.  It's been a grueling and frustrating experience and has been made nearly unbearable due to the apathy of most people who could do something about it, if they cared.  They have time to fret and fuss over each other's party issues, but can't spend 10 minutes to hear about something they could fix that would end so much misery and help protect our natural resources.   A turning point came when Cecil the lion was killed by a dentist from the U.S. on a hunting safari in South Africa.  When people learned that this easy going lion, who everyone knew by name, had been baited out of a protected area to be shot on private land, THEY CARED.   Within weeks, a documentary called Blood Lions, aired.  (It had been in the works since 1998) When I saw it today I was sure that anyone, with any sense of justice, who sees it will care.  I can see the light at the end of the dark and dreary tunnel.  I believe people will be outraged that our political representatives have allowed this to continue to this day, not only in foreign countries, but on our own soil.  The most pertinent question the film makers kept asking is, “Where are all of these cubs going?”   Here in the U.S., most notably in Florida and Texas, canned hunting ranches abound.  There is no excuse for that sort of cruelty, but the mere presence of big cats on those properties should be clear evidence that illegal hunting is happening there too.  The more easily exposed abuse is that of cubs being bred for pay to play schemes.  There is no legitimate place for those cubs to go as soon as they are 12 weeks old, and have teeth and jaw strength capable of biting to the bone.  The people who use them for photo ops, swimming with the tigers and pay to play booths, always insist that the older cubs go to wonderful sanctuaries in the end, but there are only a handful of wonderful sanctuaries, and they don't accept cast offs where the owners continue to breed and discard, so WHERE ARE ALL THOSE CUBS GOING?   In Blood Lions they discovered that all of the places in Africa, that say they send their cubs back to the wild, or to sanctuaries or non kill parks, were lying.  Is it any stretch of the imagination to think that people who are heartless enough to breed lions, tigers and ligers, only to pimp them out, would discard them to any place that would take them; regardless of how horrific that end use might be?  The breeders and dealers are the only ones proclaiming, even more loudly than our government, that where these big cats end up, isn't their problem.  I think our politicians and our federal and state agencies are about to find out that people DO care and they will be expected to turn their backs on the donations and kickbacks offered by hunters and exploiters.   Perhaps, one of the biggest forms of relief came from the exposure of the fact that NONE of the places that allow a person to have contact with an exotic cat, or their cubs, are part of the solution and rather that they are ALL part of the problem.  So many young men and women have been duped into supporting these canned hunts, by bottle feeding baby lions, tigers and ligers or by keeping them accustomed to people, so that they are later easy targets.  No one who really loves animals would ever be a part of these schemes.  I believe Blood Lions will drastically reduce the income generated by the public paying to have such experiences and will eliminate the free labor.  Would I be asking too much to hope that all of those people, who are now educated by Blood Lions, will become outspoken advocates to end the entire canned hunting industry?   We can end it in our country.  We can't be taken seriously by other countries until we clean up our own mess.  We can start by ending the private possession of wild cats.  There is a bill before Congress right now that will do that.  Ask your member of Congress to champion the Big Cat Public Safety Act   We make it easy at BigCatAct.com   Hi, I'm Carole Baskin and I've been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/   I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.     You can help feed the cats at no cost to you using Amazon Smile! Visit BigCatRescue.org/Amazon-smile   You can see photos, videos and more, updated daily at BigCatRescue.org   Check out our main channel at YouTube.com/BigCatRescue   Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  

Minister Barbara Creecy from South Africa’s Department of  Forest, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) surprised many conservationists with a bold move to ban the captive breeding of lion and rhino. Creecy delivered the long awaited report  during a press conference this past Sunday.Having convened a High Level Panel in 2019, the ministry has examined all available data and accepted the panel’s recommendation to dissolve the captive lion breeding - a deplorable industry fuelling the lion bone and canned hunting industries. The Minister also accepted the recommendation to no longer pursue the international trade in rhino and to uphold the CITES ban.Conservationist and the co-founder of Blood Lions, Ian Michler, has been one of the instrumental figures in achieving this victory for conservation. Having dedicated over 20 years to this campaign, we spoke to him about what this news means and what work still needs to be done.Ian joins Peter Borchert, Shannon Elizabeth and Simon Borchert in an exclusive interview.For Minister Creecy’s full speech, please click here.To read the full report by the High Level Panel, please click here.

Victory! Congress passes H.R. 1380 - The Big Cat Public Safety Act - now on to the Senate…China, in another surprise move, elevates the protection status of pangolin to that enjoyed by the giant panda. China is definitely responding to public pressure and increasing protection for trafficked animals. The recent increase in arrests and successful prosecutions backs this up.Yes, South Africa continues to ignore the mounting pressure to bring the abhorrent captive lion breeding industry to book. Humane Society International recently joined Blood Lions, SATSA (South African Tourism Services Association), Wildlife Act and others in a webinar where they highlighted their submission to the Department of Forest & Fisheries’ which outlines the potentially devastating consequence this unethical industry is having on tourism, conservation efforts and the economy at large. We add our voice to the call to ban the captive lion breeding industry.SANParks appoint the first black game capture rated helicopter pilot - David “Blackhawk” Simelane. He is a good friend of ours and we couldn’t be happier! Great pilot, great man.Rare Rothschild giraffe are saved from floods in Kenya.500 environmental groups have combined their voices to issue an urgent appeal to president-elect Joe Biden to create a “presidential plastic action plan”.Nature collapse is imminent without dramatic investment. That’s the warning from Birdlife International and 20 other leading organisations to leaders of the G20. With 50% of the world’s economies reliant on the proper functioning of ecosystems – even the World Economic Forum is waking up urj urgency with which we need to act.EXCLUSIVE OFFER! The Mantis Collection is offering a staggering 20% to Art Of Conservation listeners to visit Siringit Serengeti Camp. To claim your exclusive discount code in your inbox and to start planning your stay at this luxury tented camp in the heart of Africa, sign up to our newsletter here.

In a surprise move, Congress brought forward the vote for the Big Cat Safety Act (H.R. 1380), leaving little time to drive home the importance of the act on global conservation efforts. So, we chose to dedicate much of today’s episode on this critical bill that goes to the floor today.In short, the bill revises requirements governing the trade of big cats (i.e., species of lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, jaguar, or cougar or any hybrid of such species). Specifically, it revises restrictions on the possession and exhibition of big cats, including to restrict direct contact between the public and big cats. We discuss the implications of the bill should it not go through, but also if it does. Concerns abound over the plight of animals left destitute by such bills. We chat to Ian Michler from Blood Lions about his experience in this industry and what America could expect if it doesn't get this right.Vulture poisoning is on the rise in much of Africa, especially in the broader Kruger National Park in South Africa - and the impacts could be dire. To better understand the issue, we chat to Endangered Wildlife Trust’s Andre Botha about the drivers behind this barbaric practice and how we can support EWT’s efforts to bring this to an end.Cher has been working alongside Four Paws and others to rescue the World’s loneliest elephant - and they succeeded! This week Kaavan arrived at the Cambodian sanctuary where he will live out his days, in peace.Peter’s editorial in Rhino Review hits a chord with many as he explores the convergence of conservation and compassion and how we desperately need to prove our humanity through our almost lost ability to care for individual animals.Is Trump seriously going to pardon Joe Exotic!? News reports suggest it just might happen - and it makes us nauseous.EXCLUSIVE OFFER! The Mantis Collection is offering a staggering 20% to Art Of Conservation listeners to visit Siringit Serengeti Camp. To claim your exclusive discount code in your inbox and to start planning your stay at this luxury tented camp in the heart of Africa, sign up to our newsletter here.

In this episode of the podcast, I speak with Louise de Waal of the documentary Blood Lions, which exposes the sadistic truth behind caged lions bred for the bullet in South Africa.   It's an incredibly compelling conversation about an incredibly compelling documentary, find out more by listening or viewing the links below—    • Blood Lions documentary • 800 voices • Take Action For Big Cats

With the CITES CoP17 trade resolutions voted upon, now it's time to look that the ramifications of conservation by committee based upon the utilization model pressure of supply vs demand. With my guests Dex Kotze we can a real world idea of actual numbers, how many real world animals it takes to provide for an ever increasing demand in a legalized trade and the arguments that a legal trade can out compete an illegal trade. Pippa Hankison, the force behind Blood Lions, the film that blew the lid of the Canned Hunting Industry and Trade, the effects, fate and future of farmed ‘wild' life that lurk in the dark corners of unmonitored, unregulated, legal and illegal trade –the loss for lions out of CoP17 is the epitome of breaking down the value of the whole of nature into commoditized parts, available to the highest bidder. No matter how much we sell, nature cannot fulfill the demands of an ever increasing human population.

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii - September 2016: Conservation Voices correspondent Cecile Sarabian attended the screening of “Blood Lions”, a film portraying the lucrative and legal business of canned lion hunting in South Africa. The...

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii - September 2016: Conservation Voices correspondent Cecile Sarabian attended the screening of “Blood Lions”, a film portraying the lucrative and legal business of canned lion hunting in South Africa. The...

IUCN World Conservation Congress, Honolulu, Hawaii - September 2016: Conservation Voices correspondent Cecile Sarabian attended the screening of “Blood Lions”, a film portraying the lucrative and legal business of canned lion hunting in South Africa. The...

With the CITES CoP17 trade resolutions voted upon, now it's time to look that the ramifications of conservation by committee based upon the utilization model pressure of supply vs demand. With my guests Dex Kotze we can a real world idea of actual numbers, how many real world animals it takes to provide for an ever increasing demand in a legalized trade and the arguments that a legal trade can out compete an illegal trade. Pippa Hankison, the force behind Blood Lions, the film that blew the lid of the Canned Hunting Industry and Trade, the effects, fate and future of farmed ‘wild' life that lurk in the dark corners of unmonitored, unregulated, legal and illegal trade –the loss for lions out of CoP17 is the epitome of breaking down the value of the whole of nature into commoditized parts, available to the highest bidder. No matter how much we sell, nature cannot fulfill the demands of an ever increasing human population.

With the CITES CoP17 trade resolutions voted upon, now it's time to look that the ramifications of conservation by committee based upon the utilization model pressure of supply vs demand. With my guests Dex Kotze we can a real world idea of actual numbers, how many real world animals it takes to provide for an ever increasing demand in a legalized trade and the arguments that a legal trade can out compete an illegal trade. Pippa Hankison, the force behind Blood Lions, the film that blew the lid of the Canned Hunting Industry and Trade, the effects, fate and future of farmed ‘wild' life that lurk in the dark corners of unmonitored, unregulated, legal and illegal trade –the loss for lions out of CoP17 is the epitome of breaking down the value of the whole of nature into commoditized parts, available to the highest bidder. No matter how much we sell, nature cannot fulfill the demands of an ever increasing human population.

This is the second part of a conversation with Ian Michler. We talk about predator breeding, canned breeding, and the making of the movie, “Blood Lions”. Ian takes us behind the scenes of the making of the film. He shares some of the very hairy moments during the making of the movie. He also talks about the experience of Rick Swayze, the American hunter who features in the movie. If you’ve see the film you’ll know that Rick and the film crew go under cover on a lion hunting farm in South Africa. They are behind locked gates and very high fences with some extremely angry human beings, plenty of guns and ammunition, and lots of lions, when it all starts going very awry. Meanwhile, Ian and producer Pippa Hankinson are just outside the farm waiting for news. It’s a story that will definitely get the pulse racing. We then finish up by talking about how Blood Lions is changing the landscape of canned hunting and what might happen to all the lions that are currently in captivity if canned hunting is banned.

CliffCentral.com — Have you ever petted a lion cub? Have you ever paid to see lions in captivity? As innocent as this may seem, have you ever considered where those cubs and beautiful beasts eventually land up? Pippa Hankinson from Blood Lions discusses the ‘Blood Lions’ documentary that has exposed South Africa’s unethical captive lion industry.

Every single day In South Africa two to three captive bred or tame lions are killed in canned hunts under the guise of conservation, research and education. With the launch of Blood Lions, a hard hitting documentary exposing the underbelly of the lucrative and growing industry of lion farming, its undercurrents of brutality, questionable ethics of a moral vacuum filled by greed and self-importance of those who derive pleasure in the taking of life. My guest, acclaimed environmental reporter and safari guide, Ian Michler, has been following the story of industrialized lion farming and canned hunts since 1999, and today shares discoveries from his journey: from cub petting, volunteer recruitment and lion walking, to the canned hunt all the way to the end of the lion, and further links to the booming lion bone trade. Timely, courageous and giving voice to the voiceless wild, Blood Lions is also deeply disturbing in what it says about us. www.bloodlions.org

On this show we continue our examination of the treatment of lions in Africa. Pippa Hankinson, Producer of the film, Blood Lions, joins Peter for an extended discussion covering the various ways lions are bred, exploited, and ultimately killed for sport. Listen to learn the tragic details and what you can do to help end […]

Every single day In South Africa two to three captive bred or tame lions are killed in canned hunts under the guise of conservation, research and education. With the launch of Blood Lions, a hard hitting documentary exposing the underbelly of the lucrative and growing industry of lion farming, its undercurrents of brutality, questionable ethics of a moral vacuum filled by greed and self-importance of those who derive pleasure in the taking of life. My guest, acclaimed environmental reporter and safari guide, Ian Michler, has been following the story of industrialized lion farming and canned hunts since 1999, and today shares discoveries from his journey: from cub petting, volunteer recruitment and lion walking, to the canned hunt all the way to the end of the lion, and further links to the booming lion bone trade. Timely, courageous and giving voice to the voiceless wild, Blood Lions is also deeply disturbing in what it says about us. www.bloodlions.org