Human-lion conflict has emerged as a serious issue in Laikipia in recent years, fueled in part by the arrival of large numbers of poorly managed livestock during the local political instability of 2017. Funding was provided for two key activities designed to reduce conflict between lions and people in the Laikipia: 1) a Lion Ranger … Continued
Makame Wildlife Management Area (WMA), in northern Tanzania comprises 3,643 km2 of village land. The area retains significant wildlife populations including a small population of lions. The area has been gazetted as a WMA but currently lacks significant support for the management of this important community conservation area. The LRF has provided a grant to … Continued
Until 2014, lions were considered to be locally extinct in Gabon. However, in 2014 a lone male was sighted in Bateke NP. Since his arrival, the lion has acted as an ambassador and catalyst for increased conservation action in the region Genetic testing also showed Batéké lions to be most closely related to lions northern … Continued
KWT work with the communities in the Wildlife Management Areas in western Botswana to help delineate lands used for wildlife and those used for livestock, to minimise human-wildlife conflict, to tackle poaching and to develop capacity among local people. Lions are often subject to retaliatory killing and even targeted poaching in this area, threatening populations … Continued
The poaching of lion body parts is emerging as a serious threat to the species in parts of its range. We provided a grant to Wildlife Crime Prevention (WCP) to work with regional peer organizations to better understand the trade in lion body parts using covert investigations. These investigations will identify the source of the … Continued
The Zambezi region is critically important for lion conservation from the perspective of connectivity as it connects populations in Botswana with those in Angola and Zambia. At present however, lions are often killed in the community areas of the Zambezi region in response to conflict over livestock, threatening that connectivity. LRF supported the Kwando Carnivore … Continued
Bouba Ndjida contains a population of perhaps 80 lions, which in the context of Cameroon, where there are perhaps 270 lions in total, is significant. WCS are working in a partnership with the Cameroonian government to manage the park and to help tackle threats such as bushmeat poaching, targeted poaching of cats for their body … Continued
Flying for Wildlife was created with the purpose of providing free-of-charge aerial assistance to conservation organizations working on the ground in Zimbabwe. They have operated for five years and have flown around 1,000 hours in support of conservation during that time. Aerial surveillance is critical for identifying human threats such as poachers camps, illegal livestock … Continued
The Mozambique Wildlife Alliance (MWA) works closely with the wildlife authority in Mozambique (ANAC) to provide support for critical conservation services. LRF provided a grant to Saving the Survivors to help them undertake a set of key activities of significance to lion conservation, including: veterinary care to allow for de-snaring and de-trapping of lions caught … Continued
In 2016, Conservation Lower Zambezi (CLZ) set up a four man – two dog CLZ/DNPW Detection and Tracking Dog Unit for the Lower Zambezi. The Unit is based at the CLZ Basecamp and moves between trafficking ‘hotspots’, mainly in the areas surrounding the Lower Zambezi National Park. The intention of the mobile Unit is to … Continued