CAPTIVE LION INDUSTRY EXIT PROGRAMME: REGISTRATION OPENS

CAPTIVE LION INDUSTRY EXIT PROGRAMME: REGISTRATION OPENS

• 14 April 2023
• Environmental Law
• SA Legal Academy

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has gazetted a notice giving captive lion industry breeders until 14 May 2023 to register for participation in the department’s voluntary exit programme.

This is noting:

• various exit ‘options and pathways’ identified by a ministerial task team appointed in December 2022 to address issues specific to the captive lion industry, and that
• registering to participate in the voluntary exit programme ‘does not constitute any obligation to proceed’ with exiting the industry.

According to a media statement issued last year on the task team’s responsibilities, they included an audit of industry facilities to determine:

• the number of lions held in captivity
• their age and sex
• the number of lion part and derivative stockpiles in existence
• the type of practices associated with each facility
• the number of employees at each facility
• their employment levels and skills, and
• potential alternative land use options ‘within the biodiversity economy’.

Please click the links below for more information: 

• Government Gazette registration notice
• 2022 media statement on the task team’s responsibilities

Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch

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