For most people the African lion is the king of the wild whose spirit symbolises strength and courage. But for thousands of big cats bred in captivity in South Africa, the reality is a far cry from that noble image.
Coinciding with the international outrage that followed the killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe, a new documentary offers a disturbing look into the inhumane practices used by many farmers involved in captive predator breeding, a multimillion euro industry that has developed primarily in South Africa over the last 15 years.
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The hunt for British Big Cats attracts far more newspaper column-inches than any other cryptozoological subject. There are so many of them now that we feel that they should be archived by us in some way, so we should have a go at publishing a regular round-up of the stories as they come in. Curated by Carl Marshall and Olivia McCarthy
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