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T<\/span>he formulation of a Captive Carnivores Working Group has seen a handful of interested parties collaborate in order to plot the way forward for the controversial lion cub petting industry.<\/p>\n

The people\u00a0involved come from a diverse background of\u00a0experienced conservationists; people like Petri Viljoen of\u00a0African Lion Working Group<\/a>\u00a0of the IUCN and John Werth, CEO of\u00a0PAAZA<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0WAZA<\/a>\u00a0exec committee member (Pan African Zoo Association and World Association of Zoos), CACH \u2013\u00a0The Campaign Against Canned Hunting<\/a>\u00a0group as well as representatives from Lion and Safaris Park.<\/p>\n

This is an excerpt from an article first published by\u00a0Blood Lions<\/i><\/a>. Read the original article here: Lion cub petting: to ban or regulate?<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The formulation of a Captive Carnivores Working Group has seen a handful of interested parties collaborate in order to plot the way forward for the controversial lion cub petting industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":16832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,140],"tags":[803,205,1467,1571],"yoast_head":"\nLion cub petting: to ban or regulate<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The formulation of a Captive Carnivores Working Group has seen parties collaborate to plot the way forward for the controversial lion cub petting industry.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travindy.com\/news\/2017\/02\/lion-cub-petting-to-ban-or-regulate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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