Global Meditation and Prayer for Lions- a further call

Prayer by Khoisan Zulu High Medicine Man:

Avoice rises from the parched valleys of my ancient motherland, a lonely voice above the hills of eternal Africa, an appeal to those who do not care, to those who have no ears. A plea to those who choose to be nothing in the face of monstrous evil: Leave the lions of Timbavati alone. Do not destroy the sacred lions of the Gods of Africa.

No-one in their right mind would ever travel to India, and massacre the white Brahmin cattle that roam the crowded streets of India’s cities. No-one in their right mind would ever travel to Siam and there murder the rare White Elephants that we find in that country. But people come to my motherland, people come to
South Africa, to brutally murder the White Lions of Timbavati in the name of manliness and in the name of sport. The sacred icons of other races and nations in this world are respected, revered and protected. But the icons of Africa are massacred
with cold impunity, sometimes with the connivance of some of Africa’s own children.

I understand, much to my sorrow, that there is not a single White Lion left in the wild. And I ask myself: Did we win our freedom for this? This quiet devastation of our country’s most sacred animals? Did we, by joining the ranks of the democratic countries of the world, also join those people who see it as their task to denude this planet of all life?

I want to join Linda Tucker’s appeal.

I say: Please. Leave South Africa’s White Lions alone. Let them breed once more. Let them walk tall in the wilderness which is their mother.