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A waterhole in Botswana, which hundreds of thirsty animals rely on, has broken. Please help us get it fixed. |
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Dear friends,
Botswana’s Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is one of the last strongholds for Southern Africa’s rapidly diminishing lion population.
Around 750 lions live in this unfenced park, where they are increasingly under threat from poachers and farmers.
Now, they face a deadly new threat — and they need your help more than ever. |
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 | These lions are desperate for water. Beneath the sweltering Botswanan sun, this water point is their only hope. Credit: KRC |
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African lion populations have plummeted 75% in just 50 years. At this rate of decimation, they could disappear entirely by 2040. |
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Today, lions are being ruthlessly hunted to fuel the illegal trade in their body parts and bones...
…They are slaughtered by increasingly cunning poachers, and killed by farmers attempting to protect their livestock... |
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 | Credit: SAPS |
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…They are hounded from every side, their safe places shrinking by the day. |
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Now, the lions face yet another threat to their survival – a crucial wellpoint has broken, stripping them of an essential source of life-saving water. |
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One of Africa’s last free-roaming groups of wild lions finds safety at the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, with regular patrols and a strong security presence on the ground.
Thanks to these patrols, it was quickly noticed that a critical lion drinking hole – one that is filled from a borehole, and thus always has water available – has been badly damaged by wildlife, and cannot be filled.
Lions can be seen waiting for water that never comes, or climbing into the broken waterhole, squeezing together in a desperate bid for just a drop to drink. |
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Thirsty lions and other wildlife that count on this waterhole now have only a handful of others to drink from in the nearly 15,000-square-mile (38,000-square-kilometer) park. |
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A critical lion drinking hole has been damaged in Botswana’s Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. Just $3,500 (around £2,750) will enable us to fix it and provide water to the region’s threatened lion population.
Please, donate right away. |
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Our partner, Kalahari Research Conservation (KRC), has been given permission by cash-strapped park authorities to help fix this water point. The concrete trough at the water point has cracked due to years of harsh weather and constant use by various thirsty wild animals. |
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 | Once filled with fresh, clear water, this broken waterhole now offers nothing but festering, stagnant muck, stripping a crucial water supply from hundreds of wild animals battling scorching heat. Credit: ASI/Taryn Slabbert |
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Further damage has been caused by animals frantically biting the pump’s protective piping to get to the life-saving water as it pours out, with nothing to catch it.
This waterhole, located within the Kaa Pan area, is vital. Because it is always full, while others may run dry, the animals have come to depend on it for their daily water. Some plan their routes past it as they traverse the massive landscape.
Without this wellpoint, lions and countless other wild animals are in serious trouble. |
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 | Credit: KRC |
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Please donate generously and help us repair a critical waterhole for wildlife in Botswana!
Your donation today will make a life-saving difference. |
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Wild animals are suffering and they really need your help. Please, donate now, and help us reach our goal to complete these critical repairs. |
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Saving animals and the planet,
 General Manager
Animal Survival International |
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P.S. A critical waterpoint for wildlife in Botswana is broken and wild animals are in serious trouble. Please donate right away so we can complete repairs as quickly as possible. Lions and other vulnerable wild animals are depending on us today! |
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