05-18-13
Saving the White Lions … One Woman’s Battle for Africa’s Most Sacred Animal
By Author Linda Tucker Founder of the Global White Lion Protection Trust
LINDA TUCKER grew up in South Africa during Apartheid and attended the universities of Cape Town and Cambridge (UK). In 2002, she founded the Global White Lion Protection Trust, an organization that works not only to protect the white lions, but also the indigenous communities and knowledge of the Tsonga and Sepedi cultures, which celebrate the white lion as a sacred living heritage. She is invited as guest speaker at international conservation congresses, and her work has been featured in documentaries produced by National Geographic and Animal Planet. She lives in the protected area neighboring South Africa’s Timbavati reserve with her partner, lion ecologist Jason A. Turner, together with the white lion prides they have reintroduced into the wild.
Linda Tucker Is Also A Hay House Author. Timely Subject: After a recent announcement by the US Fish and Wildlife Service that African lions may deserve “endangered species” status in 2012, National Geographic launched their “Cause an Uproar: Big Cats Initiative” campaign to support conservation projects like Tucker’s. A Hollywood production company is also currently casting an upcoming biopic about Tucker’s extraordinary life. You can read about Linda and her work at http://www.whitelions.org
