Those bones belonged to a federally listed endangered species that is illegal to possess and transport. A mountain lion was reported in a Camarillo backyard hanging out under a playground set.

It has hauled Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Minister Dion George to court to compel him to establish and declare an annual export quota for lion bones and derivatives for 2024 and 2025.

[Elvis Ogina, Standard] African lions have been reduced from majestic kings of the jungle to commodities in the global lion bone trade, a situation that has led to steep population decline.

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. A young male lion was one of three members of Kenya’s famous Marsh Pride to die in 2015 after eating a cow carcass ...