Apr 11 2007
Only in Kenya….
Was scanning my RSS feeds today and saw a post about how the lion population in Kenya is making a comeback:
Less than a year ago, [Laurence] Frank [wildlife biologist at UC Berkeley] reported that Maasai warriors appeared poised to obliterate southern Kenya’s lion population.
The big cats are speared as part of a manhood ritual and poisoned to prevent livestock predation, he explained.
In 2006 a total of 32 lions in the region were killed.
But a compensation program, combined with a newfound passion for conservation, has allowed the lion population on one communally owned ranch to increase from 15 to 25, or about 67 percent, in the midst of the surrounding slaughter.
It’s an interesting article, but I can’t help myself - every time I hear “lions” and “Kenya” in the same sentence, I think of this (and then can’t stop humming the damned tune all day long):
(Original version, in neverending loop, here)
