South Africa has the biggest captive big cat industry in the world and it is largely unregulated.
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While the international conservation community unites against the captive breeding of big cats in South Africa, the government stalls.
Captive breeding takes place in South Africa and no other country is permitted to export lion bones.
A stronger ban on lion trade by CITES would have helped to lessen some of the threats lions face but it would have not have protected the animals from sport hunting.
Making tiger trade illegal has had unintended consequences on lions. The problem has escalated over the last few years.
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Research Associate, Department of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; Chief Research Officer, Good Governance Africa; Managing Director, Harvey Economics Pty Ltd.
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Professor of Wildlife Conservation and Director of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
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Regional Director of TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa and Honorary Research Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior research associate, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Kaplan Senior Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford
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Freelance academic and researcher in wildlife trade, University of the Witwatersrand