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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: "Canned Hunting" Ban Proposed in South Africa


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A young male lion roams the grassland near the Zambezi River in Africa.

The South African government is considering new laws that would ban "canned hunting"—in which trophy hunters pay steep fees to shoot tame or drugged predators, such as lions and cheetahs, released in small enclosures.

Photograph by Chris Johns/NGS