However, lion bone exports from South Africa have increased dramatically in recent years. From 2008 to 2011, the official number of skeletons legally exported with CITES permits totalled 1160 ...

By the mid-1800s, less than 200 years since European arrival, Cape lions had been hunted to extinction. European naturalists described the Cape lion as having a particularly black mane and as ...

The Cape lion, which roamed South Africa’s plains ... the illicit trafficking of lion bones, and trophy hunting. Over the past century, two factors contributing to the 75% decline in lion ...

The EIA said that between 2005 and 2015, South Africa exported the following to Laos and Vietnam: The group listed five seizure incidents of lion bones sold as tiger products in the past two years.