World Lion Day 2022

2022-08-10

I haven't had any run ins with lions since that one time at the local zoo that cold winter's day when my compadres Dewitt Casey and Grady Byrd both had a good laugh at the lioness bellowing at me standing there among the crowd in my large tan down-filled topcoat. I must have resembled some tasty wildebeest on the hoof to her ...

I recall the guffaws all the way home. To this day I never went back to the zoo, either.

Today is World Lion Day.

It is a day founded by an organization called Big Cat Rescue to raise our awareness of these big cats because lion numbers have declined to the point where they need to be placed on the endangered list such as that occupied by tigers. World Lion Day was the idea of it's co-founders, Dereck and Beverly Joubert which began in 2013 as the Big Cat Initiative under the auspices of National Geographic in an effort to protect those big cats remaining in the wilderness.

So in my continuing effort to support the creatures of the earth — particularly those in their native habitat I wish a Happy World Lion Day to you.

See Also:

International Tiger Day 2021