Kenya's Lions Could Vanish Within 10 Years


	Kenya's Lions Could Vanish Within 10 Years

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9-16-2009 7:37 AM

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9-16-2009 9:16 AM

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Political situation in most African countries doesn't help. "Staying Alive" is about people first and the animals later, for now anyway.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/385fd3c3-f27c-44e2-88b4-5a845060d747/B9088B06-6997-49BC-ADCB-EB270713AADB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html"><H1>
Kenya's lions could vanish within 10 years
</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/4FF842F9-8E97-4D19-82AA-63B9D897BCA1" alt="The future looks bleak (Image: Design Pics Inc / Rex Features) " /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html">"Lions are disappearing so fast from Kenya, as well as the rest of Africa, that I think they will disappear [from Kenya] in less than 10 years if action is not taken very quickly," says</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html"> <A target="NS" href="http://www.lionconservation.org/meet-the-team.html">Laurence Frank</A>, a wildlife biologist at cat conservation group <A target="ns" href="http://www.panthera.org/">Panthera</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html"><P class="infuse"><A target="NS" href="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15951/0">The IUCN suggests</A> that large lion populations of 50 to 100 prides are necessary to conserve genetic diversity and avoid inbreeding.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html"><P class="infuse">Frank says that the decline of the big cats is due to the inexorable growth in human population and consequent <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3379-maneating-lions-not-the-walking-wounded.html">conflict with people over livestock</A>, rather than <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg14219280.500-lions-die-of-sneering-sickness.html">disease</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html">Vast areas of Kenyan rangelands that held lions 20 years ago are now devoid of nearly all wildlife</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html">people lace cattle corpses with insecticide in order to poison entire prides. This ends up killing hyenas and birds of prey too.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html">The fact that Kenya is suffering a devastating drought isn't helping matters</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17648-kenyas-lions-could-vanish-within-10-years.html">Across the continent, the future looks bleak for lions.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B9088B06-6997-49BC-ADCB-EB270713AADB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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