Six years ago, on the 21st August 2018, Michele Pickover, Executive Director of the EMS Foundation and Dr Smaragda Louw, Director of Ban Animal Trading, jointly presented their findings of an eighteen month investigation and research project about South Africa’s role in the international lion bone trade at a Colloquium held in the Parliament of South Africa. Their research, published in the Report titled the Extinction Business South Africa’s Lion Bone Trade, uncovered the world’s largest commercial lion farming industry, where lions are bred so that they can be slaughtered for their bones. On the 7th December 2018, the Portfolio Committee on Environmental Affairs welcomed the adoption of the Report from the Captive Lion Breeding for Hunting and the Lion Bone Trade Colloquium. There was an overwhelming consensus from local and international stakeholders, participating in the Colloquium, that South Africa must bring an end to this controversial practice that has harmed the conservation image of South Africa.