The Faceless Lions of Mozambique

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The targeted poaching of lions for body parts accounted for 35% of known human-caused mortalities across the landscape, it added.

The researchers also found that retaliatory killing for livestock conflict accounted for 51% of mortalities, but body parts were removed in 48% of conflict cases, suggesting that the demand for body parts was escalating conflict killings.
Why do these two reasons for lion killngs grow so fast :-?

Maybe because there are no more tigers, but the national market for body parts for muti??? Also livestock/predator problems should not grow -O-


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The coummunities there hate the park (some have lost their villages and livelihoods), they just think they have the costs of the park and no benefits.


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Everatt said the study demonstrated that lions were increasingly confronting the threat of poaching for body parts, often under the guise of human-lion conflict.

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I do not doubt that for a minute :O^


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