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March 18, 2015, www.care2.com | “According to the Department of the Environment, the measure was introduced in response to growing public concern about canned hunting, or “captive hunting,” where lions and other big game animals are bred specifically to be killed in an enclosure where they have no opportunity to escape. Animal advocates and conservationists have also raised concerns that lions and animals are often drugged and baited before being killed.”

 Greena Lachele Smith

“According to a coalition of wildlife advocacy organizations that recently petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to get African lions endangered species protection, in the past three decades their population in the wild has dropped by more than 50 percent, leaving potentially fewer than 32,000 remaining in the wild today.”

Even though hunter claim that canned hunting takes the pressure off of lions in the wild, numbers of wild lions continues to decrees.