On the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust
And there she still is; and so it hasn’t worked.
Tag: ecology
The Human Aspect: conservation and development
Conserving a bird species, then, by dedicating the vast majority of your time and effort to the human communities that share space with it.
African Sons: lions and us
It is a singular relationship, that which exists between humans and lions.
Renouncing the Call of the Wild: the self-domestication of wolves
That the first tentative steps toward deep, eventual friendship, informed by a self-interest in easy food as those steps may have been, were taken, willingly, by wolves.
Coexistence
I have, for so long now, found so little wild, so few pockets without their shadow, and so few of the wilder, natural prey. They are not within my grasp.
On Cecil the lion, and whether trophy hunting really does help conserve the species
Trophy hunting has been around an awful long time, and for that entire time lions have been the most prized trophy of all. If it hunting lions is conservation, then it is the longest running conservation project that I know of, and, given the current state of lion populations, a somewhat unsuccessful one at that.
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