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| Frank, L.; Cotterill, A.; Dolrenry, S.; Ekwanga, S.; Hazzah, L.; Howard, A.; Maclennan, S. | |
| Living with lions - Annual Report 2006-2007 | |
| 2007 Full Book | |
We are working to restore, conserve and manage viable populations of large carnivores by developing management techniques that foster coexistence of people, livestock and predators in areas bordering parks and other regions without formal protection. Large predators have been eliminated from most of the world because they prey on livestock and populations in Africa are plummeting. Few parks are large enough to ensure lions' long term survival, and because conflict with livestock is by far the most serious threat to large carnivores, it is critical that we find methods to integrate predator conservation with realistic livestock management. The Laikipia Predator Project is the first integrated investigation into the ecology, management and conservation of large predators in human-dominated African landscapes. Laikipia is the only part of the world where ranchers enthusiastically tolerate a healthy population of large carnivores, making it an ideal laboratory in which to develop realistic and progressive predator and livestock management practices. The Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project is attempting to save one of the world's most important remaining lion populations. Maasailand is the vast ocean of grass straddling the Kenya-Tanzania border, home to Serengeti, Ngorongoro, the Maasai Mara, and Amboseli National Parks. On the Kenya side, lions are under severe and increasing pressure, as people are spearing and poisoning lions at a rate which threatens population extinction within a very few years. If viable predator populations are to persist between protected areas, two conditions must be met: Pastoralists and ranchers need affordable and culturally acceptable methods of protecting their domestic animals from large carnivores; and They must realize significant financial gain from predators to offset the costs of living with them. |
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