John Varty & Tiger Canyon

[Matias]

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The SCI recognizing as a non-ethical hunting product as JV said will have many consequences on the demand for lion hunting in SA. Edna Molewa recently authorized the annual export of only 800 lions (by-products of lions that totaled this individual quantitative) imposing a barrier, a limit since in the last years the export had numbers greater. Disabling this industry that has emerged as a byproduct of the success of South African wild animal breeding will be very difficult. Imagine about 8,000 lions (this number is a projection, since no one is sure its totality) to be allocated to sanctuaries. The economic cost would be astronomical and impractical, and giving conservation value to captive lions who do not know how to live like wild lions is even more problematic. JV has this dream ..... whose practice of creating a huge park where all these cats can live does not depend at all on the course that the trophy hunting captive lions will take. There are a huge number of wild lions that are intensively managed in about 40 private reserves, where JV can acquire lions with a minimum of logistical, tailored and self-sufficient problems. The dismantling of canned hunting for lions needs to be determined through a medium-term institutional policy that contemplate economically target breeders and ethically target all of these lions, and imposing quotas is an unmistakable sign that SA's government now has the political will to intervene in this industry. It seems that the siege is closing, where it all started with the movie Blood Lions, and the fruits of public opinion hit an institution (SCI) that has always passed far off animal ethics.


JV forgot to mention that SCI partner hunters will not receive any punctuation in their ranking. As SCI will identify the type of hunting that its members will do, that is, to prove that these hunts have targeted wild lions, such as Niassa or Selous will be a very interesting point to observe.

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