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Lions Making a Comeback in Gabon.
Topic Started: Mar 14 2015, 09:24 PM (494 Views)
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New footage shows evidence of a lion, believed to be nationally extinct, in southeastern Gabon


New footage out of southeastern Gabon has captured a male lion on camera in a region where the species was believed by scientists to be “locally extinct.” Two camera trap videos taken in the same fortnight captured a single male lion roaming along an elephant path in the Gabonese region of the Batéké Plateau – a savannah landscape extending across southeast Gabon and into Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where the lion last roamed in any great number in the 1950s.

In 2001 and 2003, Dr. Henschel led lion surveys on the Gabonese side of the Batéké landscape, walking several hundred kilometers in search of Africa’s biggest wild cat. Henschel’s team found almost no wildlife during the expeditions, and camera traps set during the surveys produced more photos of Congolese poachers than of animals.

Habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching and illegal hunting of the lion’s prey species contributed to the loss of lions in the region by the end of the last century. Until recently, lions were known to be present on the DRC side of the Batéké Plateau. Dispersing male lions can also easily travel 300-400 kilometers from their natal area.

The new survey aims to determine if the male lion filmed in Gabon is a solitary individual, which may have immigrated from a remnant population in the Malebo region of the DRC, or if it is part of a new, breeding lion population in Gabon.

-> http://www.panthera.org/blog/press-release-lions-making-comeback-gabon
Edited by ManEater, Mar 14 2015, 09:25 PM.
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