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NATURE & WILDLIFE
lions, bones & bullets
In this thought-provoking documentary, Penguin Random House author Richard
Peirce investigates why lions are being farmed in South Africa, and sets out to
tackle the question ‘should lions be farmed’?
He makes the shocking discovery that wildlife ranches are farming lions in their
thousands to export their bones to Asian markets for traditional medicine. Richard
leads the dramatic adventure from lion farms in South Africa to wildlife traffickers
in Laos and Vietnam. The farmers guard the secrets of their industry closely, so
Richard’s investigations must be both overt and covert to get to the truth and to Definition Episodes
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enable him to come to his own moral conclusions on the industry. Richard battles Producer YOP
to uncover the elaborate wildlife con of processing lion bones into food products Jagged Peak Films 2021
that could contain the ‘world’s deadliest infectious disease.’
Amongst Richard’s investigation we follow the heartwarming tale of two lion cubs
who are given a new life. Along with positive approaches to wild lion...
