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Africa-Press<\/a> – Kenya<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>In Kenya’s national parks, the lion population is in constant decline.<\/p>\n

It’s been attributed to a range of factors, but particularly climate change and human-wildlife conflict. As human populations increase, settlements in ancient lion rangelands are displacing animals long preyed on by the big cats.<\/p>\n

“If the prey species are not there, the lions go for the alternative which is mostly livestock and that causes human-lion conflict,”<\/b><\/p>\n

says Shadrack Ngene, head of species conservation management at Kenya Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n

But now, Kenya’s lions are having to contend with a newer problem – climate change.<\/p>\n

Ngene says drought is threatening lions and their prey, leaving them less drinking water and less food.<\/p>\n

“The lack of water or the drought may result in mass death of prey species which means the lions will have no food and then they will die,”<\/b><\/p>\n

he says.<\/p>\n

“On the other hand, if we have excessive rainfall, we will have emigration of prey species, and this will make the lions lack food and in the process they may die,”<\/b><\/p>\n

says Ngene.<\/p>\n

Patricia Heather-Hayes, a conservation enthusiast and lion researcher at Friends of Nairobi National Park, has seen the effects first-hand.<\/p>\n

She says in 2018, Nairobi National Park lost 14 young cubs, their deaths might be linked to serious flooding that year.<\/p>\n

“The park was quite heavily affected, and we lost 14 cubs and they were all very young, and they slowly but surely all died and disappeared,”<\/b><\/p>\n

she says.<\/p>\n

“And I think pneumonia is probably the main cause of it, others are hyenas, and they get killed naturally, but I think for us to have lost so many in one year it had to be the climate to do with a lot of it.”<\/b><\/p>\n

Heather-Hayes says human-wildlife conflict is also an issue. She suggests fencing part of the park where conflict has arisen.<\/p>\n

This follows news of a young male lion that was found trapped inside a residential building. Eyewitnesses said it seemed to have lost direction while walking back into the park.<\/p>\n

“The area that has the most human-wildlife conflict is a heavily populated, densely built upon which was used to be open. The only solution I can see for that, for the lions and the buffalo is to fence that one area,”<\/b><\/p>\n

says Heather-Hayes.<\/p>\n

Tuesday 10 August marks World Lion Day. According to the IUCN’s Red List of threatened species, the African Lion – or Panthera leo – is classified as “Vulnerable”.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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