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Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
In 2005, Lion Conservation Strategies were developed for West and Central Africa, and or East and Southern Africa. The strategies seek to maintain suitable habitat, ensure a sufficient wild prey base for lions, reduce factors that lead to further fragmentation of populations, and make lion–human coexistence sustainable.
ECOS Environmental Conservation Online System. 2016. Photos of West African lions at Pendjari National Park at flickr; ROCAL West and Central African lion conservation network; BBC News: Lions 'facing extinction in West Africa' Is this one of Central Africa's last lions? (2015) Take two: Gabon's lone lion makes another on-camera appearance (2016)
CBS News shared a story about a resilient 10-year-old lion named Jacob who lives in Uganda, and he's lived quite a life. Called "Africa's most resilient lion", Jacob and his brother recently set a ...
The Ewaso Lions Project was founded in 2007 for the protection of lions (Panthera leo) and their habitat in Northern Kenya. [1] The project works to study and incorporate local communities in helping to protect the lions in the Samburu National Reserve, Buffalo Springs National Reserve and Shaba National Reserve of the Ewaso Nyiro ecosystem in Northern Kenya.
The population of the Cape wild dogs to be found in Hwange is thought to be of one of the larger surviving groups in Africa today, along with that of Kruger National Park and Selous Game Reserve. [29] [30] Other major predators include the lion, whose distribution and hunting in Hwange is strongly related to the pans and waterholes. [31]
Cecil (c. 2002 – 2 July 2015) was a male African lion (Panthera leo leo) who lived primarily in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe.He was being studied and tracked by a research team of the University of Oxford as part of a long-term study.
A lioness under the care of a noted "lion whisperer" in South Africa mauled a 22-year-old woman to death on Tuesday. Kevin Richardson said on Facebook that he and an "experienced" colleague took ...