South Africa Bans Tourist Interaction With Captive Lions
Barbara Creecy, the minister of South Africa’s Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment formed a panel in October of 2019 to review South Africa’s policies concerning elephants, lions, leopards, and rhinos. Since then, the panel submitted a 600-page report that recommended banning the captive breeding of lions; canned lion hunts (trophy hunts where lions are in an enclosement); tourist interactions with captive lions; and the selling of lion parts.