Isn’t she beautiful? There is a lot of controversy about the killing of Cecil the Lion. Some care a lot about the impact this has, and others don’t really care at all. The ecosystems which make up our planet are being destroyed. Not only in Africa, but worldwide. Far too many animals have become extinct due to human negligence. We only have one planet – wouldn’t you like future generations to also benefit from the beauty around us?
Although the media world’s attention has been focused on the trophy hunt of Cecil in Zimbabwe, there hasn’t been much attention paid to the dwindling number of lions in the wild – the lions isolated in the pockets of national parks and game reserves. One could argue that those bits of the wild also function as natural zoos, since they are usually far apart. What a dwindling population does mean is that the 20,000 lions left in the wild are also genetically isolated, splintered into populations that do not have contact with each other. Each breeding lion removed from such populations reduces their genetic fingerprint further. There are 8 subspecies of lions. I have seen three. The lifespan of a lion is 10-14 years in the wild. All the lions in my photos, except for the ones I’ll post last, are dead, hopefully of natural causes, since they were all observed in game reserves…
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