FROM FACEBOOK

@FarmersWeeklySA

A post about the potential backfiring of the ban on captive

lion breeding in South Africa had followers sharing their thoughts on the matter.

Posted: 4 May 2021.

READERS’ COMMENTS

Lorraine Jenks: “Track down those who buy the lion parts and the middlemen. [National Councils of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals] around the world could collaborate with the technology we have today.”

Dan Motaung Dan: “Those who were keeping these animals in a hokkie would be the ones encouraging poaching. It’s blackmail of the highest order.”

Gerhard Weber: “‘Could increase [the poaching of freeroaming lions]’ is the wrong terminology; it will increase.”