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A lion king
Photographed in the wild at Monro in the Auob dunes, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. He is one of the two males in this photograph. How do we know? Because the one had a very distinctive mark on his rump - will tell you about that later. We were fortunate to see them quite often during our two week visit
The lion population in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s. Today, fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa and nearly half of all of Africa's lion populations could face extinction in the next 40 years if conservation measures aren't changed, according to a new study. It would seem the only way to protect lions from extinction is to fence them in. Lions have come into conflict with ever-growing human populations all over Africa as wild areas are converted to grazing for humans’ ever expanding herds of cattle and goats, reducing the population of natural prey for these majestic cats. Instead of going after a zebra, lions will hunt people's livestock (and occasionally kill people) as they are far easier prey.
Source news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/half-of-afr...
©Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved. This photograph and all others on my photostream are protected by copyright and may not be used on any site, blog or forum, nor linked to without my written permission.
A lion king
Photographed in the wild at Monro in the Auob dunes, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. He is one of the two males in this photograph. How do we know? Because the one had a very distinctive mark on his rump - will tell you about that later. We were fortunate to see them quite often during our two week visit
The lion population in Africa has been reduced by half since the early 1950s. Today, fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa and nearly half of all of Africa's lion populations could face extinction in the next 40 years if conservation measures aren't changed, according to a new study. It would seem the only way to protect lions from extinction is to fence them in. Lions have come into conflict with ever-growing human populations all over Africa as wild areas are converted to grazing for humans’ ever expanding herds of cattle and goats, reducing the population of natural prey for these majestic cats. Instead of going after a zebra, lions will hunt people's livestock (and occasionally kill people) as they are far easier prey.
Source news.discovery.com/animals/endangered-species/half-of-afr...
©Gerda van Schalkwyk. All rights reserved. This photograph and all others on my photostream are protected by copyright and may not be used on any site, blog or forum, nor linked to without my written permission.