From the archives: This story was last updated in June 2019.
Wildlife often pay the price for lawlessness and corruption in places like South Africa, where animals are exploited in myriad ways. Caught in the middle, such animals suffer in the worst ways possible.Tourist dollars create demand to see, hold, and take selfies with lion cubs; trophy hunters from wealthy Western countries come to shoot fenced-in big-game cats; the Eastern traditional medicine industry pays money for tiger and lion bones.
