THE TRADE AND USE IN LION BONES AND OTHER BODY PARTS ACROSS AFRICA

We have recently completed an assessment of the South African trade in African Lion bones and other body parts after concerns were raised that derivatives from wild lions were being sold into Traditional Asian Medicine markets, especially as a substitute for tiger. However, the trade in lion derivatives in the rest of Africa has not been documented. We are now undertaking a study of the evidence relating to the trade in lion body parts, and especially the source of parts in lion range states within the rest of Africa and, where possible, to quantify the amount of lion material that is available for sale on either local or international markets.

INVITATION
We very much hope you will take part in this study by completing this questionnaire. Your response would be greatly valued. The questionnaire can be completed anonymously if you prefer, but it would help us if you were prepared to provide your name and/or that of the organisation/institution for which you work/represent. Neither your name nor that of your organisation/institution will appear in any of the publications or reports resulting from this survey. If you wish to learn more about the results of the research we can, at your request, provide you with copies of the peer-reviewed report and other resultant publications once they are available.

The questionnaire should take less than 15 minutes to complete. We will accept partial submissions should you not wish, or be not able, to complete the entire questionnaire. The questionnaire can also be completed in French (https://fr.surveymonkey.com/s/Lion_TRAFFIC_WildCr_french) or Portuguese (https://pt.surveymonkey.com/s/Lion_TRAFFIC_WildCru_portuguese)

Submission of the questionnaire will be taken as your consent for us to use the information you provide.


Should you have any queries or concerns about the research, please contact any member of the collaborating team:

Dr Vivienne Williams (vivwill@netdial.co.za) University of the Witwatersrand
Prof. David Macdonald (david.macdonald@zoo.ox.ac.uk) & Dr Andrew Loveridge (andrew.loveridge@zoo.ox.ac.uk) University of Oxford
David Newton (david.newton@traffic.org) TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa


Ethics Clearance No.: H14/03/02 (University of the Witwatersrand)

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