in 1960 there were approx 450,000 lions in Africa -
today its just 16,000 (most-likely) to 23,000 max.

in just TWENTY years, from 1989 to 2009, lion numbers fell by half -
Dereck Joubert - Saving the Last Lions - washingtonpost.com (Wash-Post article)

currently the poisoning body-count is 100 adult-lions each year, killed by Carbofuran; about 8 each month,
AND - that does not count cubs, too young to eat tainted-meat, but also too-young to live without their mother
to feed and protect them; cubs die, too.
YouTube - The Poisoning of Kenya's Lions

plus the other possible causes of death; a traumatic injury while hunting, contagious disease, starvation,
fly-outbreaks, are all natural; there are also other human causes - hit by cars, shot by poachers, and so on.


Lions * Cannot * Afford * to lose 8 adults or more every month; 2 adult-lions every WEEK...
year in, and year out. more than 95% of the lion-popn from the 1960 level is gone -
less than FIVE PERCENT of that level, survives.
that is not enough for genetic diversity; lions need *help and protection*.

please sign the petition:
Defenders of Wildlife Action Center: Defenders of Wildlife Action Center

* ban the import and use of Carbofuran
* protect lions in all of the countries where they live
* effectively prosecute poaching and poisoning
* until poisoning STOPS - ban safari-hunting of big cats



WARNING -
this is **graphic footage** of an approx 2-YO Male Lion in Mara Preserve, staggering + dying.
do not view this if U are emotionally-sensitive - i can easily see someone having nightmares.
YouTube - Lions Poisoned - Mara Triangle

another -GRAPHIC FOOTAGE-
big adult-F, U can see where she scrabbled the grass down to bare-to dirt trying to get up + walk;
the poison causes paralysis + leaves the cats helpless - they cannot get food, water, or into shade, and die,
painfully and slowly.
YouTube - Lions Poisoned

I can't even talk about that right now, i'm actually shaking .

Signed the petition x