They're being bred on an industrial scale
Wealthy trophy hunters are paying thousands of pounds to shoot captive lions who are being bred in farms and kept in awful conditions.
Gruesome pictures show their innards and bones scattered all over the floor while other body parts were stacked up in overflowing plastic bags.Simba laying down after being chased and shot with 2 darts Simba was instead offered to Miles Wakefield, from Essex, who paid around £3,000 to chase Simba through an enclosed hunting ground before shooting him with two strong tranquiliser darts.
Investigators paid the ranch $2,000 and a transport company and a vet came to the ranch this week to humanely sedate Simba and take him on an 11-hour journey.A video shows him being released in a secret area of South Africa as one of the rescuers shouts ‘Yay Simba!’ In a bid to make even more money, South African breeders are believed to be cross-breeding lions and tigers.
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