Why do these two reasons for lion killngs grow so fastThe 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.
Maybe because there are no more tigers, but the national market for body parts for muti??? Also livestock/predator problems should not grow