{"id":4518,"date":"2019-08-14T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T05:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"tanzania-has-the-largest-number-of-lions-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/14\/tanzania-has-the-largest-number-of-lions-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Has The Largest Number Of Lions In Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Edward Qorro <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tanzania has the\nlargest number of lions compared to other African countries, a new report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are estimated to\nbe between 14,000 and 15,000 lions in the country today, thanks to an extensive\nnetwork of protected areas in form of national parks, game reserves which form\nat least 300,000 square kilometres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This ensures\nsufficient space for the lions to hunt (feed) and breed and protection from\nhuman disturbance and for the ecological balance needed for their\nsurvival,&#8221; said Dr Dennis Ikanda, Principal Research Officer in charge of\nCarnivore Ecology and Conservation at the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute\n(Tawiri) yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Ikanda, who was\nreacting to a recent study released by the University of Oxford on the\ndwindling number of lions in Africa, noted that there were estimated to be over\n16,000 Panthera leos in Tanzania, nearly a decade ago, a clear affirmation of\nthe country&#8217;s zeal in the protection of its rich wildlife diversity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researcher, who is\nalso a member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Cat\nSpecialist Group, however, cautioned that the number of lions could decline if\nrecurrent conflict between humans and wildlife was not resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But even in Tanzania, the number of lions living outside\nprotected areas is declining due to habitat loss, natural prey and conflict\nwith pastoralists,&#8221; warned the researcher during a telephone interview\nwith this paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Released on August 3, the report entitled &#8220;State of the\nLion: Fragility of a Flagship Species&#8221; by Amy Dickman and Amy Hinks from\nthe Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford, suggests\nthat wild lions have vanished from 95 per cent of their historic range.\nAccording to the study, there are only 22,509 wild lions left in Africa. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908120146.html\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Edward Qorro Tanzania has the largest number of lions compared to other African countries, a new report says. There are estimated to be between 14,000 and 15,000 lions in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}