World Lion Day: Lions and communities face a growing struggle to coexist
Philip Muruthi, vice president for species conservation and science at the Africa Wildlife Foundation, says habitat loss and fragmentation are the biggest threats facing Kenya’s lions.“When conflicts occur, the lions might come in contact with the livestock, eat them and people retaliate and one of the key threats here in Kenya to lions is really retaliation, people killing lions because they ate their livestock,” he says.“Kenya's lion populations which number about 2,500 to 2,600 face the major threat facing their conservation and their future well-being is habitat loss and fragmentation,” he says.
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