ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月22日 22時26分

@ナショナルジオグラフィック photo by @stevewinterphoto
HAPPY EARTH DAY WEEKEND!!!!!!!!
A male lion relaxing at night after a big meal.
Two weeks ago the Kogere pride, an incredible group of 11 tree climbing lions were poisoned a few meters outside of Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. @alexbraczkowski had been studying and filming these lions since October 2017. I was working with Alex and his team this year in the park. You may have read about this in the media. They were poisoned because they were killing cattle in Hamkungu village, just outside QE National Park. Alex started a GoFundMe page to help stop lion poisoning - to help raise money for collars and to build protective bomas for the livestock so the lions cannot get to them during the night. The farmers in this area live off of only a few dollars a day. Local people need to benefit from living with predators. The local ecotourism industry relies on these lions for tourism money which benefits the local community - so everyone - lions, humans and the ecosystem have suffered a great loss.

Poisonings and poaching are the main threats to lions not only in Uganda but across their East African range. Most lion populations in East, Central and West Africa are declining so the time to act is now. Please consider helping:
www.gofundme/treelions

Just 100 years ago there may have been as many as 500,000 lions which roamed the African continent but today there it is estimated that as few as 16,000 - 30,000 remain, and research by lion biologist Hans Bauer and colleagues suggests lions in much of west, east and central Africa will decline by 50% in the next two decades if something dramatic is not done! The biggest threats facing lions in Africa are poaching of their prey and retaliatory killings by farmers when lions eat their cattle! There is also an emerging threat of lions being used in Chinese medicine as tigers become rarer. @wildaid "When the buying stops the killing can too"

#follow me @stevewinterphoto to see more images from my work with @ナショナルジオグラフィック and Thanks!! @stevewinterphoto @ナショナルジオグラフィック @natgeochannel @natgeowild @thephotosociety @natgeocreative #bigcatsintiative @africanparksnetwork #lion #uganda #lionstrong #

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