South Africa will clamp down on captive lion breeding after a review panel concluded the industry risked the conservation of wild lions and harmed tourism, the environment minister said on Sunday.

South Africa has taken steps to end its multimillion-dollar lion-breeding industry, which supplies cubs for tourism, lions for trophy hunts, and bones for traditional medicine. In a statement on ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa says it will end its captive lion industry in a major move for conservation that would outlaw the heavily criticized “canned hunting” of the big cats ...

South Africa has over 8,000 lions living in captivity, the largest captive lion population in the world, surpassing the country's wild lion population. Willie Jacobs, a game lodge owner and ...

South Africa has offered ... and Wilderness Foundations Africa, said it developed its first biodiversity management agreements with three private black rhino and lion owners in the northeastern ...

The establishment of new lion farms will be banned in South Africa, which is trying to close an industry that has seen thousands of the predatory big cats bred and kept in captivity. Members of ...

Lion bones are sought after for use in traditional medicine. Many of South Africa's captive lion facilities are open to the public who pay to see and have direct contact with the big cats.

BEIRUT — It's hours before dawn and the marina in Beirut's Dbayeh district is deserted apart from a small group of men lifting a metal cage labeled "live lion" onto a yacht. The passenger is a ...

South Africa will clamp down on captive lion breeding after a review panel concluded the industry risked the conservation of wild lions and harmed tourism, the environment minister said on Sunday.