The Mozambican portion of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area suffers from severe bushmeat poaching, and increasingly, targeted poaching of lions. The LRF approved a grant to support a collaboration between Greater Limpopo Carnivore Program and Limpopo National Park for the deployment of a special Limpopo Lion Protection Unit designed to protect the remaining lions … Continued
The illegal bushmeat trade is probably the single greatest threat to wildlife (including lions) in Zambia. Bushmeat poaching has reduced prey populations significantly, even in protected areas. Lions are also killed directly in the wire snares set by poachers to catch ungulates, such as impalas and buffaloes, which lions eat. An increasing proportion of bushmeat … Continued
In Zambia, as with several other countries, there is growing evidence of targeted poaching of lions for skins and other body parts—in addition to an increasingly severe threat to leopards associated with poaching for their skins. While this threat to lions does not yet appear to have emerged as a serious challenge on a population … Continued
Damaraland is a rare success story for lions – after going locally extinct in the 1990s, the desert-adapted lion population has gradually recovered and now numbers in the region of 120 individuals. However, with that recovery, human lion conflict has surged – made worse by a severe drought which has reduced the availability of wild … Continued
Panthera have recently secured an agreement with the Angolan government to provide financial and technical support for the management in the vast (30,000 square mile) Luengue-Luiana National Park. There are few places in Africa with greater potential for lion recovery. At present lion numbers are estimated to be as low as 30 individuals, but a … Continued
The LRF has now provided four grants to Niassa, via the Niassa Carnivore Project, each designed to strengthen collaborative law enforcement efforts. Niassa holds one of Africa’s largest lion populations, and by far the largest population in Mozambique – with over 800 individuals. However, the population is declining due to a combination of threats, principally … Continued
BioCarbon Partners and Lion Landscapes have established a project in the game management areas that link the Lower Zambezi and Luangwa Valley protected area complexes in Zambia. This is a key connectivity pathway and represents a significant block of wildlife habitat in its own right. Wildlife and lions in that area are threatened by habitat … Continued