The High Court of South Africa declared the government’s annual commercial 2017-2018 export quotas for lion skeletons from captive breeding operations unlawful and constitutionally invalid, as they didn’t take into account of the welfare of the animals.
About 200 captive lion facilities in South Africa generate about 500 million rand ($33 million) annually in fees, according to estimates from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
South Africa has been criticized at home and abroad for allowing lions to be killed in captivity by ...
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