Trophy hunting is contentious ... Against this backdrop, we set out to test whether visitors to South Africa would be willing to pay a “lion protection fee” at border entry points.

Here Professor Hans Bauer from Oxford University, who has been studying Africa's lions throughout this time, argues in The Conversation why trophy hunting is failing to boost the numbers.

Those lions lack hunting skills and do not adapt to the wild due to their fearlessness of humans. South Africa, which hosts one of the largest lion populations in the world, has about 3,500.

In Africa, wild lion populations are mostly found in South Africa ... that lion populations are healthy enough to support trophy hunting business. Kat said trophy hunting remains one of the ...

Exclusive: More than 700 body parts of big cats were exported in 2023 – including to the UK – after repeated promises to ...

An avid hunter of endangered animals was shot dead in South Africa after his truck broke down, according to new reports. Riaan Naude, the 55-year-old head of Pro Hunt Africa, was found dead next ...

Naude operated a popular trophy hunting business, Pro-Hunt Africa. Trophy hunting is legal in South Africa and particularly popular among Americans. His Instagram account showed him posing with ...

And that such a ban could be funded by introducing a “lion protection fee ... currently generated by trophy hunting of all the iconic species in South Africa a year. These calculations ...

Trophy hunting is contentious ... Against this backdrop, we set out to test whether visitors to South Africa would be willing to pay a "lion protection fee" at border entry points.

Trophy hunting is contentious ... Against this backdrop, we set out to test whether visitors to South Africa would be willing to pay a “lion protection fee” at border entry points.