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Dear Friend,
My name is Eugenia Morales, and I am a campaigner at World Animal Protection.
Not long ago, a brave individual came to us with evidence of massive suffering of lions on commercial lion farms in South Africa. Our research team has verified the disturbing testimony and materials.
For safety and security reasons, the caring individual who brought the cruelty to our attention must remain anonymous, but I’d like to shine a spotlight on one of the victims. We’re calling him Khosana. He was a lion, and his story deserves to be told.
The shocking evidence showed he was cruelly starved just so that his captors could save money. Khosana should have stood proudly and majestically (Khosana means “Prince” in the local Sotho language). Instead, he was a bag of bones, trapped in a real-life nightmare inflicted on hundreds of lions in South Africa.
Right now, when you support World Animal Protection, your gift will be matched dollar-for-dollar up to $25,000 to help lions like Khosana and all of our campaigns to stop the exploitation of animals.
Among other urgent efforts, your generous gift—doubled in size and impact—will help World Animal Protection move the South African government to keep its promise to end the commercial lion breeding industry that sentences lions like Khosana to lives of torment.
Help World Animal Protection advocate for lions, bears, elephants, and all wildlife who suffer for human greed. Your gift to our Year End Matching GIft Challenge will double in size and impact!
Our research and investigations team are experts in documenting cruelty. We accumulate and verify the evidence necessary to expose abuse and move people to action. From our extensive investigation into commercial lion farms in South Africa, we know that what Khosana endured is not an isolated case of animal cruelty. Every year, an estimated 400 lions are hunted in South Africa, the vast majority by canned trophy hunters. At these facilities, captive bred lions like Khosana are released into fenced enclosures with no chance of escape even from the most amateur hunter.
We’ve even received reports of lions still drugged when they were released to make them easier targets for hunters.
And since many commercial lion farming and canned trophy hunting venues set out to make as much money from the lion as possible, after the “hunt” is over, they betray the lions again—by illegally selling their bones to the international traditional medicine trade.
Please, don’t let animals like Khosana be forgotten. Send a gift to help us show people how animals are suffering and inspire urgently needed change. Any gift you make by December 31, 2023, will be matched!
Sincerely,
Eugenia Morales
Campaign Lead — Wildlife
World Animal Protection
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