“Ten years ago there used to be lions everywhere. You’d hear lions at night, find their tracks during the day. That simply is not true anymore,” said Laurence Frank, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and an expert on African predators.DISTURBING!
While the size of southern Kenya’s lion population is difficult to measure, Frank says the giant felines no longer roam where they once did and the current rate of killing is unsustainable. “Within two years the lions will essentially be gone,” he said.
Last month alone, nine lions were found speared to death in and around Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, just north of Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro…
It makes what NZ’s Lionman does all the more important (of course he is working hard to conserve lions that don’t even exist in the wild as it is…).
I don’t have anything against centuries old tribal customs of manhood or whatever - but I do believe that in some circumstances education can be useful to provide new avenues and opportunities for changes to some customs which will actually benefit lions and the people. Through the lions the people’s culture can also better be preserved.
It seems a lot to me liek in our modern western society - the groups of young men trying to outdo each other in their behaviours (e.g. doign stupid dangerous car stuff).
NB: Pictures in article may disturb lion lovers =(
On a more postive note - stay tuned for some VERY exciting LIONMAN news that Shine is currently looking into!!! On her scale of exciting this rates right up at the top!
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