A Michael Broad Blog
Yes, it is possible to scare off lions on the African continent. You don’t have to kill them to protect your cattle. For the past two and a half years, under a scheme instigated by Oxford University’s wildlife conservation unit, farmers have seen a 40 to 50% drop in cattle being killed by lions …
Now Cecil’s brother, Jericho, has been shot dead. I want to scream. I hate this damn world. I hate these people who kill for stupid reasons. What is wrong with people? Why are humans so crazy? Now that Jericho has gone Cecil’s cubs who were being cared for by Jericho will almost certainly be …
The current fragile success of the recovery of the Iberian lynx population in Spain and Portugal provides encouragement for those in Britain who wish to reintroduce the Eurasian lynx (a larger lynx species) to un-fenced private estates in the UK, particularly in Norfolk, Cumbria, Northumberland and Aberdeenshire. You may remember that there are proposals …
The Burmese government is too corrupt to be able to discharge its obligations under CITES. Mong La, Burma is governed by a lawless armed gang. The Burmese government abdicated their responsibilities to govern Mong La (aka: Little Mong La or Xiaomengla) in a deal with the gang. We don’t know what the deal is …
A hundred years ago, in Kenya, there were many more lions and far fewer Maasai tribesman. Back in those days it could be argued it was more acceptable for a young Maasai Warrior in Kenya to prove his courage and worth to the girls in his community by killing a lion with a spear. …
The rare purebred cat, the Sokoke, is named after the forest whence it came: Arabuko Sokoke forest. It is in Kenya. It is 420 square kilometers in size and the largest coastal forest in east Africa. The original Sokoke is a semi-feral cat living in and around settlements. It looks rather like a wild …
The African lion is being pushed off the planet by humankind. Put it another way, it has been projected that within 40 years humankind will have wiped out the African lion, in the wild, if we carry on as we are. There simply hardly enough space left in Africa for the lion and the …
