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Report on captive lion breeding a step in right direction - dept Minister Barbara Creecy orders her department to establish a process that will stop lion hunting and protectect other key species. FILE: A lioness. Picture: Aletta Gardner/Eyewitness News 4 hours ago JOHANNESBURG - The Environmental Affairs Department report on captive breeding of lions and other animals is being described as a step in the right direction. A panel released its research on Sunday after reviving the management and rules gover...

The Colombian frog farm trying to put animal traffickers out of business In one of the world’s most biodiverse countries, thousands of animals fall victim to poaching each year. Could captive breeding projects help save some from extinction? Ivan Lozano believes customers need alternatives to the illegal wildlife trade  Inside Ivan Lozano's secluded facility there are dozens of neatly stacked glass cases, glowing with ultraviolet light and filled with vegetation. These terrariums provide homes for some of Colombia's most endangered frogs. It's from this small farm near Bogota that Lozano i...

Will have to evolving the whole model, and in the u.s., the killer whale shows are will come to an end. >> we don't know what the new orca or more natural experience is to entail, because we don't have the details, but one thing for certain, and you are an expatriot, you can't take the whales and release them into the wild. what are you proposing is the best solution for these whales? >> well, that is true. that is the the 24 killer whales that sea world has in the u.s. are going to be spending their lives in sea world if they are not shipped abroad to asia or the middle east. when they say th...

This to appease our critics, we're doing it to respond to our visitors. at the same time it seems like they are trying to reach out to critics saying look, we're making changes, we're going to talk about these animals in the wild. but they'll never satisfy critics because they want an end to the captive breeding. >> have they seen a drop in the visitors to the killer whale shows? >> they don't even break out attendance by parks but in san diego of all their 11 parks, it's the steepest decline. last year there was a 17% drop in attendance and that means a drop in revenues, there's been a drop i...

Captivity. seaworld says the bill is flawed. assemblyman joins me now to talk more about it and i think we should have warned our audience. i've seen the movie and it is incredibly disturbing from many vantage points to watch, but i've got to read this to you just quickly. the family of dawn brancheau after "black fish" premiered, released a statement, we're not affiliated with the movie in any way. dawn would not have remained a trainer at seaworld for 15 years if she felt the whales were not well cared for. the family says she would not have been there if the whales were not cared for, but y...