Singapore Airlines not to carry lion bones

Singapore

Airlines said yesterday it had stopped accepting lion bones for cargo after the carrier was singled out in a report for transporting the animal parts from South Africa.

Campaigners have long called for a ban on the controversial trade in big cat bones, which are soughtafter for medicine and jewellery in Southeast Asia. Singapore Airlines was the sole carrier importing lion bones from South Africa to Southeast Asia last year, according to a report released by EMS Foundation and animal rights group Ban Animal Trading. (AFP)