Nyanga, the White Lioness: City of Jo’burg spares her life.
NOW: The Quest For Sanctuary
NOW: The Quest For Sanctuary
A huge THANK YOU to our inspired and activated network and community of supporters and lovers of Mother Earth and her creatures, for your adding your voice to the petition calling to spare Nyanga’s life and to grant her sanctuary at Tsau White Lion Sanctuary, which exceeded 5 000 signatures from over 55 countries. Thank you also for adding your prayers to the prayer-appeal, which culminated on Freedom day, the 27th April 2012 at midday.
History Of Campaign For Nyanga
The wonderful news is that the City of Jo’burg resolved to spare her life last week.
We would like to acknowledge the responsible and insightful action undertaken by the City of Johannesburg, Executive Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo and their team in granting the White Lioness Nyanga preservation and sanctuary.
What is now of critical importance is the decision around the choice of sanctuary Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo will make for her relocation.
In an email to Executive Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo, the Global White Lion Protection Trust (GWLPT) has reiterated our appeal and offer to relocate Nyanga from the Johannesburg Zoo’s Parys facility to Tsau White Lion Sanctuary, under the strictest protocols and standards as aligned with the guidelines of the NSPCA’s principles of excellent animal welfare sanctuary.
The WLT has custodianship of properties in the natural and ancestral homelands of the White Lions in the Greater Timbavati region, which we acquired as a “protected heritage area” of national importance, in the epicentre of the White Lions’ endemic habitat within the world heritage listed Kruger-to-Canyon Biosphere. High-spec facilities in this protected area received official accreditation of White Lion ‘Sanctuary Status’ and ‘Rehabilitation Facilities’ in 2009 [DEAT (Department of Environmental Affairs / Department of Tourism) approved].
Since it’s registration, the WLT has represented the case for protecting South Africa’s White Lions as cultural and conservation heritage at many international congresses, In 2009, the WLT succeeded in having a resolution passed by the World Wilderness Congress in Mexico (54 countries) for the protection of South Africa’s White Lions.
Internationally, the WLT has an excellent reputation and is in partnership with institutions of high repute, including Swansea University (UK), Valhalla Wilderness Society (Canada), National Cancer Institute (USA) Frederick Research Facility (USA) and Cheetah Conservation Fund (Namibia) in pursuit of scientific advancements in genetic research to protect the White Lions.
Locally, we have a long-standing ongoing commitment to community upliftment in the region of the White Lions’ occurrence in the Acornhoek and Oaks Presidential “Poverty Nodes”, with a focus on eco-educational schools program and cultural heritage events. Heritage Day Celebrations around the White Lions involved 18 participating schools, with government and parliamentarians in attendance. These eco-cultural events included a White Lion presentation to Dr Nelson Mandela.
The White Lions are a cultural heritage celebrated in this specific region, and Nyanga the White Lioness is known by reputation and regarded as family because she is named after a famous Tsonga Medicine Woman, Maria Khosa, whose family are well-known local community leaders. Harmony Khosa, Maria Khosa’s nephew, has made a direct appeal to the City of Johannesburg to relocate Nyanga to the Tsau White Lion Sanctuary, in his letter to Mayor Tau Click here to view the letter and the youtube video.
In protecting the White Lions as an environmental and cultural heritage, our organization upholds section 24 in the Constitution which states:
History Of Campaign For Nyanga
The wonderful news is that the City of Jo’burg resolved to spare her life last week.
We would like to acknowledge the responsible and insightful action undertaken by the City of Johannesburg, Executive Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo and their team in granting the White Lioness Nyanga preservation and sanctuary.
What is now of critical importance is the decision around the choice of sanctuary Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo will make for her relocation.
In an email to Executive Mayor Tau and Counsellor Vondo, the Global White Lion Protection Trust (GWLPT) has reiterated our appeal and offer to relocate Nyanga from the Johannesburg Zoo’s Parys facility to Tsau White Lion Sanctuary, under the strictest protocols and standards as aligned with the guidelines of the NSPCA’s principles of excellent animal welfare sanctuary.
The WLT has custodianship of properties in the natural and ancestral homelands of the White Lions in the Greater Timbavati region, which we acquired as a “protected heritage area” of national importance, in the epicentre of the White Lions’ endemic habitat within the world heritage listed Kruger-to-Canyon Biosphere. High-spec facilities in this protected area received official accreditation of White Lion ‘Sanctuary Status’ and ‘Rehabilitation Facilities’ in 2009 [DEAT (Department of Environmental Affairs / Department of Tourism) approved].
Since it’s registration, the WLT has represented the case for protecting South Africa’s White Lions as cultural and conservation heritage at many international congresses, In 2009, the WLT succeeded in having a resolution passed by the World Wilderness Congress in Mexico (54 countries) for the protection of South Africa’s White Lions.
Internationally, the WLT has an excellent reputation and is in partnership with institutions of high repute, including Swansea University (UK), Valhalla Wilderness Society (Canada), National Cancer Institute (USA) Frederick Research Facility (USA) and Cheetah Conservation Fund (Namibia) in pursuit of scientific advancements in genetic research to protect the White Lions.
Locally, we have a long-standing ongoing commitment to community upliftment in the region of the White Lions’ occurrence in the Acornhoek and Oaks Presidential “Poverty Nodes”, with a focus on eco-educational schools program and cultural heritage events. Heritage Day Celebrations around the White Lions involved 18 participating schools, with government and parliamentarians in attendance. These eco-cultural events included a White Lion presentation to Dr Nelson Mandela.
The White Lions are a cultural heritage celebrated in this specific region, and Nyanga the White Lioness is known by reputation and regarded as family because she is named after a famous Tsonga Medicine Woman, Maria Khosa, whose family are well-known local community leaders. Harmony Khosa, Maria Khosa’s nephew, has made a direct appeal to the City of Johannesburg to relocate Nyanga to the Tsau White Lion Sanctuary, in his letter to Mayor Tau Click here to view the letter and the youtube video.
In protecting the White Lions as an environmental and cultural heritage, our organization upholds section 24 in the Constitution which states:
- Everyone has the right to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generations, through reasonable legislative and other measures that ….
- promote conservation
- secure ecologically sustainable development and use of natural resources while promoting justifiable economic and social development.