Lion Conservation

 

Lions are considered the ‘King of Beasts’. These regal creatures live in prides and are capable of hunting and bringing down large prey.

Lions were once abundant throughout Africa and have long been an icon of the African landscape. There remains a small remnant population of Asiatic lions in Gir National Park in India.

In recent years lion bone has been used as a substitute for tiger bone in the illegal trade in Asia leading to a spike in lion captive breeding facilities in South Africa.

Tragically, lions have often been reduced to imprisonment in a cage, with cubs taken away from their mothers for unwitting tourists to play with.

They are placed in petting zoos, they are unknowingly ‘tamed’ by volunteers who help to raise them, and by tourists. Once they are too large to be easily handled the animals are released into caged compounds where they are often drugged and shot at close range – a practice known as canned hunting.

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As few as 20,000 lions survive in Africa today.

lion cub with it's mother

Image Credit: Manoj Dholakia

male lion in the long grass

Image Credit: Leon Molenaar

Protecting Lions

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF) is supporting a programme to investigate and protect lion populations in two of Uganda’s key wildlife areas.

Africa’s lions are under threat and, with little known about the lions of Uganda, DSWF funding will help conservationists better understand the issues and threats faced by the populations in the country. The teams will work to establish whether the South Murchison Falls Conservation Area holds the largest population of lions in the country and how many lions survive in Kidepo Valley National Park in the northeast.

This project aims to determine the size and range of Uganda’s lion population and evaluate the threats to them. A number of lions are being collared and assessed by vets as part of this work.  We also fund anti-snare operations.

DSWF has been funding conservation in Uganda since 1998 supporting the work of the Uganda Conservation Foundation.

Find out more about how DSWF is working to protect lions.

Protecting lions

“The rapid decline in lion numbers across Africa in the last decade has been shocking. The growing demand for lion bone in Asia, the abhorrent canned hunting industry and human encroachment into wild spaces are pushing this magnificent big cat ever closer to extinction.”

Georgina Lamb, Chief Executive at David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation

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