"The cost to kill a lioness can be up to $9,500 in South Africa, whereas a lion can set a hunter back $23,000, $30,000 for a white lion or $35,000 for a black mane lion, similar to Cecil. It's unclear what <a href=""http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/31/world/zimbabwe-cecil-lion-dentist/"">Walter Palmer's</a> $55,000 payment may have included.<br />According to the <a href=""http://whitelions.org/white-lion/key-facts-about-the-white-lion/"" target=""_blank"">Global White Lion Protection Trust,</a> there are hundreds of white lions in captivity, but less than 13 in the wild. And there are no laws to stop them being hunted.<br />Although lions are not listed as endangered, it's claimed by certain wildlife activists that their numbers are in <a href=""http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083500"" target=""_blank"">serious decline in West Africa. </a>"
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