Trade in African lion bones for Asian market faces scrutiny

In this file photo taken June 15, 2014, lions yawn in the Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. A report from Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve released Saturday Feb. 4, 2017, raises concerns that the legal export of bones from hundreds of captive-bred lions in South Africa to China and Southeast Asia could spur the market offering high rewards from traffickers for full lion carcasses.