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
Dinder National Park is a huge protected area of 10,000 km2 on the border with Ethiopia. Across the border an additional 5,000 km2 or so of protected areas exist, including the Alatash National Park. Consequently the landscape represents a potentially very significant one for lions. A preliminary site visit during 2016 indicated that a significant … Continued
Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda has recently experienced a major spike in retaliatory killing of lions. This has contributed to a decline in numbers from 144 individuals to around 100. WCS is developing a comprehensive program to tackle human-lion conflict in the park. With LRF support received in 2017, they undertook a number of … Continued
Hwange National Park is home to a large and growing lion population. However, the buffer areas around Hwange suffer from high levels of snaring for bushmeat. This means that lion numbers are depleted in those areas and lions from the park are vulnerable to being killed in snares when they move into neighboring areas. The … Continued
African Parks Network (APN) have taken over the management of three protected areas in Malawi in a public-private-partnership with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife. Their engagement with Malawi started with Majete National Park, which was a massive success—taking a highly-depleted protected area and turning it around to the point where wildlife abounds. Lions were … Continued
The Ruaha Carnivore Project (RCP) was granted by the LRF to help expand a programme designed to incentivise communities to help protect lions and other wildlife on the borders of Ruaha National Park in Tanzania. This project recognises communities as custodians over wildlife and rewards them for effective protection of the resource. In addition to … Continued
Pendjari National Park in Benin forms part of the 10,488 square mile W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) protected area complex that straddles Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger and which holds 90% of West Africa’s lions. This complex is two and half times the size of Yellowstone National Park. Pendjari retains the largest wildlife population in the WAP complex, … Continued
The vast 3,513 square mile Niokolo-Koba National Park holds the last remaining population of lions in Senegal and encompasses an area 10x larger than that of New York City. The LRF provided funding to Panthera for their protected area management support project that encompasses infrastructure (a radio network and ranger bases), bonuses for rangers, equipment … Continued
Musekese Conservation is a not-for-profit conservation initiative that provides support to Zambia's Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) to secure core populations of big cats and other wildlife from poaching, ensuring their long-term viability in contributing to both conservation and sustainable tourism. To date the Lion Recovery Fund has provided Musekese Conservation with five … Continued