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Hans Bauer’s research shows that over 25 years, lion numbers have decreased by 43% throughout Africa, and that their range has declined by more than 90%. There are now roughly 25,000 lions in 60 separate population groups, half of which consist of less than 100 lions. Their existence is particularly threatened across West, Central and East Africa.
In this compelling read, the University of Oxford research fellow provides a dramatic insight into his work, counting lions and collaring them. And while trophy hunting is not the biggest threat to these animals, he contends that it does little to help their plight and delivers next to nothing for the communities that live close to the remaining lions.
“I know the thrill of a hunt,” he writes, “but a dart gun does not kill – and the information you get from a lion’s collar is amazing.” Such information could be critical in the race to save the creatures – but that’s a fight that will require significant international financial investment and legislative action.
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Stephen Khan
Executive Editor, The Conversation International
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Over the past 25 years, lion numbers have decreased by 43% throughout Africa, as their range has declined by more than 90%.
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Hans Bauer, University of Oxford
An Africa-based conservation expert explains why trophy hunting has not delivered for wildlife in most parts of Africa, and that local communities benefit next to nothing from its continued practice
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Brittney Griner appears at a hearing at the Khimki Court outside Moscow on June 27, 2022.
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Rokeshia Renné Ashley, Florida International University
WNBA star Brittney Griner is scheduled to appear in Russian Court on July 1, 2022, after US officials determined she had been wrongfully detained.
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A section of the Cederberg rock painting, digitally enhanced to emphasise red-ochreous colours.
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Neil Rusch, University of the Witwatersrand; Sarah Wurz, University of the Witwatersrand
Sometimes archaeologists can “hear” the ancient past using acoustic methods.
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Joanne Bentley, University of Cape Town; Alex Pigot, UCL; Andreas L. S. Meyer, University of Cape Town; Christopher Trisos, University of Cape Town
Species will endure intolerable conditions long after the global average temperature stabilises.
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John Hawkins, University of Canberra
We are at a dangerous tipping point in ‘inflationary psychology’, says the central bank for the world’s central banks.
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Ismini Vasileiou, De Montfort University; Paul Haskell-Dowland, Edith Cowan University
Despite its ‘innovator’ status, Apple usually wasn’t the first one to offer groundbreaking new features. But it knew how to adopt existing features in groundbreaking ways.
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Agbaje Lateef, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso ; Adeoye O. Adekunle (PhD), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso
Nigeria can save money spent importing citric acid by producing it from cashew waste.
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Dominic Lapointe, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
The tourist appeal of the St. Lawrence River dates to the 19th century. Residents and summer visitors have rubbed shoulders ever since, but not necessarily shared the same ideas about its attractions.
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Ewa Hanna Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire; Tony Rigg, University of Central Lancashire
The sounds and attitude of punk were all about not conforming to the norm and rebelling against all that came before it.
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