Red is the colour of blood, shukas and lists
Category: General | Date: Oct 29 2008 | By: Seamus
I had reason to check on what the IUCN has to say about the threats facing african lions, and had a look on the red list website. The P. leo page is well-written and is a pretty good primer for anyone who is interested in knowing about the conservation status of lions. I encourage you to have a look.. click here.
Here is an example of the high standard of data that the IUCN has to offer on the site (image reproduced from their site). Hatched areas in red represent areas that are said to have resident lion populations.
Technorati : conservation status, iucn, lion conservation, lion research, lions, red list, wildlife
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2 Responses to “Red is the colour of blood, shukas and lists”
nairobinationalpark, on 17 Nov 2008
Hi Seamus. Am going to check out the IUCN page(s) on the status of lions in Africa, but I DO NOT think the standard of data is very high:for Kenya (see map ) there are certainly resident lions in much of Eastern Kenya (Tana River, North Eastern, Lamu) which fact is not reflected in the map…….
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Seamus, on 17 Nov 2008
NNP - I agree, the map obscures detail. This is perhaps a cost of presenting data on such a large scale. Or it might be a reflection of the methods used to generate the cover layer. Sometimes the folks making distribution maps will draw and arbitary density cutoff.
The long and short of it is that we probably need some proper survey work done in eastern Kenya. I recently spoke to someone about lions in the east of Kenya that come all the way down to the coast. It would be interesting to know more about these animals. The only other place I know where one finds ocean and lions is the Skeleton Coast (Namibia).
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