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Lion farms pull wool over ecotourists' eyes

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Times Live

Publication Date
2015-08-31

Young ecotourists from abroad are paying up to R50,000 to raise "orphaned lion cubs" so they can be "rehabilitated into the wild" - without knowing that the lions are actually mass bred in captivity, then sold off for canned hunts.

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http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2015/08/31/Lion-farms-pull-wool-over-ecotourists-eyes