I know I’ve been a slacker reporting to you on what’s happening in Africa.

I’ve been hanging around Europe and right now it’s cold! But news has come to me that carbofuran is being sold in Kenya and other eastern African countries.

It is horryfying. Right now a poisen made by a U.S. company a product that the Environmental Protection Agency says is too toxic to be used in America – is threatening the extinction of the African lion.

Just a handful of carbofuran – a deadly neurotoxin can kill an entire pride of lions. Sadly this awful poisen is still sold in stores and widely used across kenya and East Africa.

If something is not done soon, you can kiss these great cats goodbye.

Just 50 years ago, it is estimated that nearly half a million lions could be found in Africa. Now lion experts say that as few as 16000<remain. That is a staggering decline of more than 95%. In Kenya, home to world-famous wild lions, the story is especially sad.

The Kenya Wildlife Service estimates that fewer than 2,000 of these majestic great cats now remain in Kenya — down from an estimated 35,000 that made their home in the country just 50 years ago. According to the agency, one hundred lions are killed each year — many by carbofuran.

If Kenya’s lions continue their precipitous decline, there will not be a single wild lion left in the country in 20 years. Can you live with that thought?

At least seventy-six lions have been confirmed killed by carbofuran, with many more deaths left unreported. And while it is a crime in Kenya to use this deadly poison to kill lions, but very few have ever been arrested for poisoning a lion with carbofuran.

A quarter teaspoon of carbofuran can kill an individual lion. Less will paralyze this mighty beast for up to a week, leaving a lion or lioness to starve to death or be killed by other predators.

I am a member of Defenders and ask that you help us to win this fight. Over the last two decades, tens of thousands of Defenders activists hearblped finally convince the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of this deadly poison in America. Now we need you help to save the lives of endangered African lions threatened by carbofuran.

Please take action  – all I ask is that you sign the petition to Kenya’s Prime Minister Raila Odinga.