Youth For Lions

 Photo Credit: Blood Lions 

Background

Blood  Lions™ is an award-winning South African documentary which sheds light on the South African predator breeding, canned hunting and lion bone trade industries. Following on from the success  of the film  Blood  Lions™ in association with the Marching Animal Welfare trust, Wildlands Conservation Trust and Regulus Vision  launched a new youth forced element to their campaign called YouthForLions 1^st  September 2016. 

YouthForLions is a global movement aimed at informing and engaging the worlds youth around the realities of volunteering, cub petting, walking with lions and other forms of animal interaction, and their contribution to canned hunting. Our focus is creating awareness through school and university screenings.

For more information, please visit our site:  http://www.bloodlions.org/youth-for-lions/

YouthForLions ambassadors:

Beth has written a blog about her time volunteering on a lion farm http://claws-out.com/                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Born to Live Wild campaign

YouthForLions invite all tourism operators to join them in committing to take the pledge to end the breeding, canned hunting and commercial exploitation of lions.

Access more information at

http://www.bloodlions.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Blood-Lions-Pledge.pdf

How to get involved 

Here are a few #GetInvolved actions points to get you started:

1. Join our various social media pages:

• Facebook           https://www.facebook.com/YouthForLions/    
• Twitter                https://twitter.com/YouthForLions
• Instagram           https://www.instagram.com/youthforlions/

2. Download the YouthForLions toolkit to help get the message out and get you friends and family involved too. 

PowerPoint presentation – to share with friends, family and fellow students. This link leads you to a PDF of the presentation.  Please contact youth@bloodlions.co.za to request the power point with support notes.

Printable posters –  to help spread awareness about the film or to advertise a screening, two options are available: – want-to-cuddle or don’t-be-caught-with-blood 

3. Visit our website to see how you can help with hosting a screening, a presentation and more: http://www.bloodlions.org/youth-for-lions/

4. Join our YouthForLions pledge: Sign our PLEDGE and SAY NO to animal interaction and facilities involved in the captive breeding and canned hunting industry. Download the YouthForLions Pledge and e-mail us your commitment to South Africa’s lions at: youth@bloodlions.org.

5. Access YouthForLions YouTube channel with short clips on the different aspects of the campaign that you may use to create awareness about canned hunting.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaTUI9LSR_6KVfKyBZlDcdg