HR!Day846 - Thu 2/1/24 Saving the White Lions - Linda Tucker
Day 846 Thu 2/1/24 Saving the White Lions
- --- Humanity Rising Day 846 - Thursday February 1, 2024 (GoTo Bottom)
At the commence of this unprecedented, inflammable year, leading conservationist Linda Tucker speaks into the opportunities for enlightened humanity to rise to the occasion. Inspired by the White Lions, Nature’s iconic symbols of Peace on Earth, Linda has secured vast protected wildlands in the heart of their ancestral territories in UNESCOs Kruger to Canyons Biosphere. Over 3 decades, Linda’s work has united ancient indigenous knowledge with modern science to help save species, reviving the ecosystem alongside human value systems – in a leadership model of harmonious coexistence with mutual benefits for Lions, Land and People, in one of the world’s most important biodiversity hotspots.
After commercial lion trophy hunting and other forced removals in the Timbavati region rendered the White Lions technically extinct in the 90s, Linda Tucker instituted a successful reintroduction program of these magnificent luminous animals back into the land of their origin, purchasing vast tracks of bushveld wilderness lands to create a protected area in the heart of the White Lions’ natural ancestral homelands.
Although her work through the Global White Lion Protection Trust has achieved triumphs against formidable odds for the White Lions, their ancestral lands, and the greater community, the crisis facing Panthera leo today is catastrophic.
Saving the White Lions
While the White Lions are celebrated as a sacred living heritage by local tribes, these luminaries have been mercilessly persecuted by the modern world for their majesty: trophy hunted in the wild; artificially removed from their ancestral lands into zoos and circuses around the planet; and worse: forcibly bred in South Africa’s now notorious cuddle-to-kill captive industry: cuddled as cubs by tourists, then killed as adults by trophy hunters.
Linda Tucker has been campaigning against this diabolical industrializing of lions since the early 90s, and famously rescued a White Lion born from one of these death camps, before returning her together with her own cubs to the wilderness land of her origins, where her lineage survives to this day. Marah is a legendary lioness, born on Christmas Day 2000, in a South African lion-killing operation called “Bethlehem.”
Convener:
Jim Garrison
90 Participants
