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A group of activists warned that lions are still wild animals and should always be treated with respect, without human interaction.
“Blood Lions does not support human interaction with wild animals. There is no need to do that and it has no conservation value, ”said Nicola Gerrard of the Blood Lions campaign.
“While these lions were domesticated from a young age, they are still extremely dangerous and have a wild instinct.
“The conservation community will tell you that interacting with wild animals in captivity is not recommended.”
In 2017, Judge Cebekhulu, 46, and a colleague were chopping wood near Lion Treetop Lodge, when two white lions escaped from their enclosure. He was attacked when he ran away.
At the time, Mathewson said the attack was the first of its kind in two years of walking tours.
“We are devastated by what has happened,” Mathewson said.
He said that, in his opinion, Cebekhulu was not mutilated.
“The judge, who I believe only suffered minor injuries, was airlifted to the hospital where my business partner visited him every day until Saturday. When they saw him on Saturday, he was sitting and chatting. “
But when his partner returned to the hospital on Monday, he was told that Cebekhulu had died.
“They told us that he died of natural causes and not from his injuries.”
Gerrard said there are more than 200 predator breeding farms in South Africa and the goal of his campaign is to end the canned hunting and exploitative breeding of lions and other predators on farms across the country.
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