Zambia has banned the hunting of lions and leopards because of a drop in the numbers of its big cats.
Until now, people in the southern African country could hunt the animals for sport.
But Zambia’s tourism minister Sylvia Masebo said there are no longer enough cats for hunting purposes.
“Tourists come to Zambia to see the lion and if we lose the lion, we will be killing our tourism industry,” she said.
Lions are found in all of Zambia’s major parks, but their numbers are going down, with fewer than 4,500 lions in the whole country.
The number of leopards is unknown.
Neighbouring Botswana is also banning all sport hunting from 2014, while Kenya stopped hunting for sport decades ago.
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15 Responses
I find this interesting, because I like to hunt myself deer, pigs goats etc. I think it would be thrilling to shoot a lion, I think they should ban it for 5 years until the numbers grow again
Tom:)
Im glad they have banned hunting the big cats because they are great animals and i dont think everyone would want to see them go.
Luke:)
I think killing lions is a bad thing and I think it’s good that they are going to ban it.
Sophie
I think it’s good that they’re banning hunting big cats!
Sophie
I think that its great that they are banning the hunting of big cats because what would the world be like without Lions,Leopards etc.
Adele
I think that its great that they are banning the hunting of big cats because what would the world be like without Lions,Leopards etc.
Adele
Its about time, I feel sorry for these poor animals soon there going to be extinct.
And that would be terrible! :'(
Its about time, it would be ashame if the big cats became extinct!
Sammy
I think that its a good idea to ban hunting lions because as i learnt today from Ms D, when she went to africa she told us some people kill animals just for fur or other things that they can find on the animal. :”(
If they didn’t ban killing big cats they would become instinct 🙁
poor lions dieing so i am happy they stopped!:)
lionssssssssssssss rock:)
whoppa lion style whoop whoop whoop lolz:)
Wow I am so glad 🙂 Yay long live big cats 🙂
you are doing something good Zambia