16 JULY 2018
In accordance with advice provided by the Scientific Authority, the Department of Environmental Affairs has determined the 2018 lion bone export quota.
The approved quota of 1500 skeletons (with or without the head) is effective from 7 June 2018.
The determination has been communicated to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
(CITES) Secretariat in line with a 2015 decision taken at the 17th Conference of the Parties to CITES.
The decision reads: “annual export quotas for trade in bones, bone pieces, bone products, claws, skeletons, skulls and teeth for commercial purposes, derived from captive breeding operations in South Africa, will be established and communicated annually to the CITES Secretariat.”
It is important to note that at COP 17 a zero annual export quota was established for lion bones, bone pieces, bone products, claws, skeletons, skulls and teeth removed from the…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I’m speechless. That’s there’s even a group devoted to this for one, and that the quota should still be zero. We seem to be taking a backward slide when it comes to wildlife, when wildlife can least afford it. WTF are lion bones used for anyway?
Good question! Probably something sick, like constructing “life-like” stuffed “mounts.”
Jeez – it’s for ‘wine’, like tiger wine, another folk medicine for Asia, used as an aphrodisiac. As if this world needs any more help for sex and breeding! 😦 The fact that SA knowingly takes part in this when it has absolutely no value at all is shameful. Like rhino horn too. Human beings really disgust me:
https://www.bornfree.org.uk/news/news-lion-bone-report