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1980s

Lions (including the rare White Lions) are being trophy hunted for big money. They are also being stolen from the wild and put into zoos and circuses around the world, and worse: held in cages, and forced to breed cubs who will later be killed for money.

1991

Linda Tucker unites with the Tsonga and Sepedi people to protect the White Lions in the land of their origins bordering the Kruger National Park

2002

Global White Lion Protection Trust is founded as a Non-Profit-Organisation to protect lions as a global heritage

2004

Famous White Lioness Marah is rescued from a death camp and reintroduced to the wild by the Global White Lion Protection Trust

2007

Global White Lion Protection Trust presents to Parliament calling for the protection of South Africa’s lions by law.

2007

Nelson Mandela unites with us in supporting lions and animals as a constitutional right

2007

Famous White Lion Aslan is advertised to be killed as a trophy for $160 000. Instead, he is air-lifted to safety out of the death camp by Global White Lion Protection Trust, and successfully reintroduced to the wild, where he raises a litter of cubs together with Marah’s lineage. He is renamed Mandla in honor of former President Nelson Mandela.

2009

Lions, including the rare White Lions, are being bred in cages for the bullet. At least 160 of these commercial operations have been formed in one decade, now called the “Canned Hunting” industry, where lions are treated as commodities: bred-then-killed for blood money.

2009

Mexico, World Wilderness Congress: delegates from 54 countries unite with us in passing a Resolution calling for the protection of White Lions as a global heritage

2010

South Africa fails to prohibit Canned Lion Hunting by law.
Statistics show that dead lion exports have increased 300% in the last few years.
Legislation against the Canned Hunting industry is dropped by the Supreme Court of South Africa. It’s a free-for-all in the lion killing industry.

2010

Soccer World Cub.
Global White Lion Protection Trust asks AVAAZ to help create a petition to save lions.

2012

Still no protection for lions in South Africa’s death camps.

2013

Linda Tucker presents at Westminster, British Parliament, appealing for international support in shutting down the global Canned Hunting industry.

2014

Global March for Lions: 62 Cities around the world take to the streets, demanding the protection of lions by international law.
The Sepedi and Tsonga nations joined the march in the heat and dust of White Lion territories.

2014

AVAAZ joins the campaign. Over 2 Million signatures are raised demanding that South Africa’s president, Jacob Zuma, shut down the death camps.

2015

“Blood Lions”, the documentary, exposes the horror of Canned Hunting – now a massive international killing industry. Lions and the rare White Lions are forced to have cubs that are hugged and petted for money by tourists, then shot as tamed animals by American and European hunters.

2015

Cecil the Lion is hunted down in Zimbabwe by an American dentist and decapitated as a trophy. Global outcry leads international parliamentarians and congressman to promise legislation change.

2015

Many ethical airlines around the globe refuse to carry lion parts and other animals as cargo. Ethical courier companies and freighting companies unite behind the same cause.

2015

World Lion Day.
One United Roar is launched to celebrate our lions as a living heritage not a killing industry.

2016

Major tour operators in South Africa join together to stand up for lion rights. They refuse to take tourists to unethical breeding and petting programmes.

But the battle isn’t over.