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The Lion Conservation Fund serves as a powerful vehicle for fostering sustainability by providing a holistic approach to wildlife, habitat and biodiversity conservation by including all stakeholders and providing innovative strategies for addressing the issues related to conservation and scientific research.
Research and Conservation
Once lions roamed across much of the African continent, but today they remain in only a few strongholds, largely due to habitat loss, past hunting pressure, poaching, and illegal trade. Kenya is particularly vulnerable. At present, there is a ban on trophy hunting, but there are many organizations working to lift that ban. Some African wildlife is only found in certain places in East Africa, such as maneless lions in Tsavo and Grevy zebra in Samburu.
Research on manelessness in lions is still being conducted and much more needs to be learned. Lions and lionesses exhibit different behavior in different parts of Kenya and extensive research is needed to understand why.
We have been conducting interviews with local people, doing wildlife surveys, establishing habitat and prey availability assessments and creating spatial models to determine the connectivity of lion populations in the region. Data collected will be submitted to Kenya Wildlife Service and other conservation agencies to contribute to conservation strategies.
Information collected includes determining the threats lions face, their distributions and population size, habitat condition and type, prey availability, the region’s biodiversity, and local attitudes towards lions.
Lions display a great deal of local variation in behavior, social structure, and morphology, so it is necessary to assess them in differing habitats and across all locations where they are found.
Research and Conservation
Once lions roamed across much of the African continent, but today they remain in only a few strongholds, largely due to habitat loss, past hunting pressure, poaching, and illegal trade. Kenya is particularly vulnerable. At present, there is a ban on trophy hunting, but there are many organizations working to lift that ban. Some African wildlife is only found in certain places in East Africa, such as maneless lions in Tsavo and Grevy zebra in Samburu.
Research on manelessness in lions is still being conducted and much more needs to be learned. Lions and lionesses exhibit different behavior in different parts of Kenya and extensive research is needed to understand why.
We have been conducting interviews with local people, doing wildlife surveys, establishing habitat and prey availability assessments and creating spatial models to determine the connectivity of lion populations in the region. Data collected will be submitted to Kenya Wildlife Service and other conservation agencies to contribute to conservation strategies.
Information collected includes determining the threats lions face, their distributions and population size, habitat condition and type, prey availability, the region’s biodiversity, and local attitudes towards lions.
Lions display a great deal of local variation in behavior, social structure, and morphology, so it is necessary to assess them in differing habitats and across all locations where they are found.