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
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
The Masai Mara ecosystem in Kenya holds a population of around 470 lions and is a critical stronghold for the species. Conservation efforts in the area have been greatly bolstered in recent years by the formation of community-owned conservancies around the Masai Mara National Reserve. These conservancies effectively double the conservation area and provide critical … Continued
The Greater Maasai Mara Ecosystem (GMME) in Kenya is home to about 500 lions and is of critical importance to the conservation of the species. Wildlife in the GMME is subject to a number of key threats, such as human-wildlife conflict. High densities of people live adjacent to the wildlife areas of the GMME, resulting … Continued
African Parks has rapidly expanded their portfolio over the last 3 years and now manages an area of 51,351 square miles, an area 16 times the size of Yellowstone National Park. African Parks has worked hard to increase their operational revenue from tourism. However, this year’s tourism revenue has ceased completely as a result of … Continued
Landscape and Conservation Mentors Organization (LCMO) is a small, grass-roots conservation organization that runs the WASIMA campaign: a multi-pronged campaign that engages local community commitment to stop illegal lion killings in South Western Tanzania. A key element of this campaign is to establish village by-laws to outlaw the ritual hunting of lions by young Sukuma … Continued