LionAid Campaigns

Kenya and Namibia were recently awarded the highly responsible position of chairing a CITES Periodic Review of African lions. LionAid has already written UK MPs and MEPs to urge them to support this initiative by insisting that only the highest quality information be used to evaluate population numbers remaining, and not to allow inclusion of vested –interest group inventions. LionAid also felt it would be useful for citizens of many nations concerned about lion sport hunting to write to their Kenya delegations to express support for the Periodic Review, to ask the Kenya Government to consider all aspects of lion biology in the Review, and to resist the use of data invented to promote trophy hunting.  As just a single example, a lion survey conducted by vested interests has now said there are 2,700 lions in Mozambique compared to more careful data that puts the population at slightly over 1,200.

Please take a few minutes to send a letter to your country’s Kenya delegation to express your concern that the Periodic Review is undertaken carefully. It will mean a lot for the conservation of remaining lions. You can find a template letter here and the email address  here:
If there is no Kenya delegation in your country, please select the one in the nation closest to you.
And please inform us at chris@lionaid.org if you receive replies!
Thank you!