What affects us affects cats
She is a female lion – a lioness – living in Botswana’s Okavango Delta but looks and behaves very much like a male lion and the most discernible feature is her magnificent, flowing mane. The locals have named her Mmamoriri. Scientists are not sure why she has the mane of an adult male lion. …
Cattle herders are still routinely poisoning lions across Africa in order to protect their cows. They don’t know the consequences of what they’re doing. Conservationists have warned that poisoning lions in this reckless manner has huge knock-on effects. Other animals eat the same poisoned meat and they die too. Then there is tourism. This …
The killing of Cecil the lion by Walter Palmer and his cohorts did some good. It highlighted the need to tighten up the whole trophy hunting business and it is big business. To be frank we can’t rely on the governments of African states such as Zimbabwe where Cecil lived to change much. It …
We know that farmers, specifically cattle herders, use poison to kill predators such as the African lion. They do this by lacing the carcass of a cow with poison. This can have the effect of wiping out a whole pride of lions but in addition it also kills the vultures which feed on the …
Well, it’s Monday the 7th September 2015 and Dr Walter Palmer should be back at his workplace, his dental practice, sometime during this week. He has said he intends to return tomorrow, Tuesday 8th 2015. It will be a memorable day and one I hope he regrets! Sorry if that sounds a bit mean …
Judging by his love for living rough in the African bush while contemplating lion conservation and how best to enhance it, we are compelled to come to the conclusion that Prince Harry prefers to be living in Africa; living a more normal life doing something he truly loves, being involved with the African people, …
South Africa is not sufficiently interested in animal welfare. The country’s authorities and the businesses in that country are simply more interested in making money out of the wild species which happen to inhabit the country and this, of course, includes the lion; the animal which is most abused and exploited. The president of …
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 …
