Please help us take the next step to save these lions from terrible deaths due to carbofuran and other threats with your tax-deductible donation today.

Just a few grams of the deadly U.S.-made poison carbofuran can paralyze the King of the Beasts -- the African Lion.

As 60 Minutes reported earlier this year, it’s an excruciatingly painful way for this majestic animal to die. [1] Paralyzed, a lioness becomes helpless. In the heat, she can die from dehydration. Without movement, she can starve to death or be eaten alive by a jackal.

Please help us ban the use of deadly carbofuran and win more help for these beleaguered kings and queens of the jungle with a year-end tax-deductible donation today.

Today, this awful neurotoxin -- which the Environmental Protection Agency says is too toxic for America -- is still freely sold in Kenya and sprinkled on livestock carcasses to kill some of the planet’s last remaining African lions.

We’ve received pleas from some of the world’s leading lion researchers to help. And we must do all we can!

Make a year-end tax-deductible donation right now to help save the lion kings.

Fewer than 2,000 of these majestic great cats survive in Kenya -- down from an estimated 35,000 just fifty years ago.

Unless we help, there may not be a single wild lion left in Kenya within 20 years.

Together, we can save Kenya’s lions from extinction, but we need your help. Please make a tax-deductible contribution to support our work right now.

Kenyan officials report that at least 100 lions are killed each year -- many by carbofuran. A multi-year study identified at least 76 incidents of lions being poisoned by carbofuran -- with many more likely unreported.

Defenders of Wildlife helped ban carbofuran in the U.S. Now we’re taking our fight to Africa. Here’s what we’ve done already -- and what we will do with your help -- to save these lions:

• We’ve already collected nearly 45,000 signatures for our petition urging Kenya’s prime minister to ban the use and sale of carbofuran… and we’re only getting started!
• We’re launching a full-court press to win Senate passage of the Great Cats and Rare Canids Act. This legislation -- already passed by the U.S. House and a key Senate committee -- would provide essential funding to support on-the-ground efforts to save lions and other rare species; and
• We’ll fight for lions in the media, online and beyond, using outreach to the media, our website, videos and more to build national awareness and broader grassroots support to save the world’s remaining lions.

These initiatives can help save lions from extinction. But we can’t succeed without your compassionate support today.

Please make a year-end tax-deductible donation of whatever you can afford today to support our work to save the lives of imperiled lions.

With Gratitude,

Rodger Schlickeisen President Defenders of Wildlife

Help Save the Lion King

It takes a quarter of a teaspoon of the U.S.-made poison carbofuran to kill a lion or lioness. Less can paralyze, leaving a once-mighty great cat to die of starvation, dehydration or helpless at the teeth of other predators.

Please make a year-end tax-deductible gift now to support our campaign to ban carbofuran in Kenya and enact life-saving new protections for imperiled African lions.

Carbofuran doesn’t just kill lions. This deadly neurotoxin also threatens farm workers and scavenging wildlife

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