World Tiger Day, How South African captive bred lions and tigers feed the Asian tiger trade

In support of World Tiger Day (29 July) and the Wildlife. Not Medicine Campaign, Blood Lions puts the focus on the international trade in tiger body parts and makes the link to South Africas legal lion bone trade, in their latest campaign movement. Since 2008, nearly 7, 000 lion skeletons weighing a total of around 70 tonnes have been exported from South Africa to South East Asia for use in traditional Asian medicine practices. Since the beginning of the 20th Century, 95 of the world s wild tiger populati