![]() ![]() ![]() If local communities don't have a direct connection or benefit from protecting lions, they have no reason to want to do so."ĭespite the urgency of the crisis, there are reasons for hope. Conservation should be about both nature and people and should aim to reduce the costs local communities face from living with and protecting wildlife, as well as increasing the benefits. "In the past, conservation has just been about protecting wildlife species and habitats, and very little concern was given to the people that live around these areas. Threats include shrinking habitats, a decline in prey because of illegal bushmeat poaching and an increase in human-wildlife conflict – but there are solutions, writes Dr Mbizah: "The communities that live with the lions are the ones best positioned to help lions the most." Local people should be at the forefront of tackling the problem, she argues. ![]() Although lions also previously existed in many other countries, outside of Africa, lions can only be found today in the wild in one location: Gir National Park in India." "In Africa, they currently inhabit less than 8% of their former range. ![]() "There are fewer than 20,000 lions remaining in the wild," writes Dr Moreangels Mbizah, the founder and executive director of Wildlife Conservation Action, in The New Big 5. ![]()
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