White Lion

White Lion | They are beautiful animal and Unique animal. White Lion is not albino, they have a genetic rarity. It's unique to one endemic region on the globe: the Timbavati region. White lion is more distinctive than the African leopard. They are rarer than the legendary Snow Leopard of the Himalayas. They are as white as the polar bear. There are only about 500 white lions in the world. For hundred years, people have tought that white lion is a figment of legend in South of Africa. But between 1900 until 1975 some white lion cubs were found at Timbavati game reserve.

They are the most sacred animal on the African continent, they are close to extinction in the wild by hunters who shoot white lions for pleasure. They have also been hunted in captivity in a famous practice known as ‘canned lion hunting'. The earliest recorded sighting of white lions in the Timbavati region was in 1938. However, the oral records of African elders indicate that these unique animals survived in this region for many centuries.

White Lion and the cubs

But today, there is an organization which try to secure white lion from their extinction. This organization is a South African based non-profit organisation, established in 2002.This organization is called The Global White Lion Protection Trust (WLT). One of their programme is world-first White Lion Reintroduction Programme. In 2009, this Progamme can be considered successful, because three snow white lion cubs were born to the project in the Greater Timbavati region.  These cubs were (June 2009) released with their pride at the Tsau! Conservancy.

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