Your support is amazing and we thank every last one of you for caring enough to add your name to this petition!

Standing today at almost 372,000 signatures, we are reaching a level that will make it very difficult for the UK Government to ignore.

Over the past weeks, we have had to bide our time as the Brexit negotiations have completely absorbed the time of UK Members of Parliament - but there is finally light on the horizon and MPs are listening.

Last week we met with some MPs and engaged with others by telephone and email. Next week, there is more activity afoot and we will get a much needed debate happening on all trophy imports into the UK Parliament.

We need to keep lions at the top of the agenda as their need is the greatest right now - with less than 15,000 left in the wild and only four viable populations left (there were five when we started, but the declines continue steeply), time is of the essence.

So we need to engage with as many MPs as we can and meet with them to talk in detail about the challenges facing lions.

Next week, we will update you on progress made.

In the meantime, a BIG PLEA for support. We rely on individual donations to keep our work going and our funds are now extremely limited. This project and beyond is going to take a lot of work and expense. Each time we travel to London, for example, for another meeting, there is a significant cost and we have very many trips ahead if we are to win this first important battle.

The donations everyone has made from this page do not come to LionAid - they go to help Change.org keep their organisation moving forward.

So if everyone of the 372,000 signatories could spare the cost of say, a cup of coffee and use that money to send us a donation - with the number of you who are supporting this page, we could fund this campaign and give us the wherewithal to not only win this battle but move on to the urgent conservation needs of African lions that include population counts in key areas and establishing proven means for rural communities to prevent predator depredation of their valuable livestock assets.

But let's first get a successful phase one completed and stop any further lion trophy imports from entering the UK.

Please help us now as we start the most critical phase of this campaign.

Thank you! - We're counting on you.