{"id":4702,"date":"2019-08-19T09:39:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T06:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4702"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"popular-lion-seduli-killed-by-hunters-on-world-lion-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/19\/popular-lion-seduli-killed-by-hunters-on-world-lion-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Lion Seduli Killed By Hunters On World Lion Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By allAfrica<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lions have declined\nprecipitously in the wild, down from an estimated 200,000 continent-wide a\ncentury ago to just over 20,000 today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Released on August 3, a report entitled &#8220;State of\nthe Lion: Fragility of a Flagship Species&#8221; by Amy Dickman and Amy Hinks\nfrom the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at the University of Oxford,\nsuggests that wild lions have vanished from 95 percent of their historic range.\nAccording to the study, there are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908120146.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only 22,509 wild lions left in Africa<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908120146.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tanzania has the highest number of lions<\/a>&nbsp;at 8,176, followed by South Africa with 2,070\nlions, Kenya with 1,825, while Zimbabwe has 1,709 lions to its name,&#8221; says\npart of the report. Mozambique and Zambia have 1,295 and 1,095 lions\nrespectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trophy hunting advocates and some conservationists argue\nthat fees from hunts support conservation efforts for the big cats, whose main\nthreats are habitat loss, prey depletion, and greater conflict with humans,\nsays the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2016\/06\/cecil-african-lion-anniversary-death-trophy-hunting-zimbabwe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Geographic<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201908150321.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By allAfrica Lions have declined precipitously in the wild, down from an estimated 200,000 continent-wide a century ago to just over 20,000 today. Released on August 3, a report entitled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4703,"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-4702","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\/4702","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=4702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}