WORLD WORLDWIDE AFRICA KENYA - ANIMALS - ANIMAL SURVIVAL INTERNATATIONAL - Human-wildlife conflict is wiping out lion populations in southern Kenya.

 

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This is how we can stop the slaughter of lions in Southern Kenya, with your help. Trying clever technology can save Kenyan lions. Please help by making a donation now! Share Tweet Forward Share Dear friends, There are few safe spaces left for lions in southern Kenya – and those that remain are steadily disappearing.  Human settlements are rapidly encroaching on critical lion habitats, and the consequences for wild animals are devastating.  As climate change wreaks havoc on Kenya’s natural environments, the lions’ food sources are disappearing too. Hungry lions are forced to venture ever closer to humans in a search for food and, following their instincts, prey on livestock. Villagers are killing them in retaliation. Hungry lions eat livestock to fill their empty bellies – and they’re paying for it with their lives. Please help by making a donation now! It is a sad fact that around the world, humans and animals are competing for ever-diminishing land and resources. Tragically, the animals always lose.  Outside the Amboseli National Park in southern Kenya, the situation is particularly dire. Lions are killed using spears or poison, either in retaliation for eating livestock or, even worse, as a pre-emptive measure before the lions kill a single domestic animal.  Recently, seven lions were killed by villagers in a single attack.  Every week, lions and other wild animals, including leopards, cheetahs and hyenas – all critical to the healthy functioning of ecosystems and edging ever closer to extinction – are wiped out for being seen as a threat to livestock.  We have a solution that will help save the few remaining lions. Livestock in Kenya is usually kept in traditional African enclosures called ‘bomas.’ These enclosures keep the domesticated animals in, but are easily breached by predators. Our partner, Lion Lights, has developed a cost-effective solution that has seen impressive results. The expert team installs specialized “deterrent” devices on bomas – durable, solar-powered LED lights that flash and blink at regular intervals, scaring predators away. This not only protects livestock from attacks, but removes the excuse farmers have long used to slaughter lions and other critical predators.  The solution is remarkably effective. Two long-term projects in Kenya have proven the effectiveness of the lights – one of which has been running for ten years, and another which was installed three years ago.  Since the lights were installed,  the slaughter of lions and other predators has been reduced by around 80% – and in some cases, been eradicated altogether.  Only around 200 lions remain in the Amboseli region. Please, help protect them before it is too late! Please help by making a donation now! With your generous support, we plan on covering an expansive area of roughly 1.5 acres (over 65,000 square feet or 6,000 square meters) with these advanced deterrent lights.  For every $135 we raise (approximately £105), we can protect an entire boma and its livestock — as well as all the lions and other predators in that area.  Over time, we hope to equip all 300 of the area’s bomas with these lights, helping to put an end to the retaliatory killing of lions and other crucial predators once and for all.  These lights will not only protect lions, but a multitude of other important predators. It is tragic that lions are killed simply for following their natural instincts.  We CAN stop the slaughter, but ONLY with YOUR help. Please help by making a donation now! With your support today, we can implement this proven, highly-effective solution to keep wild animals safe.  Lions are extinct in 26 African countries. Don’t let Kenya become the 27th! Please, donate generously to ASI right now. Saving animals and the planet, General Manager Animal Survival International P.S. Kenya’s lion population has plummeted 83 percent in the past century, putting the species on the fast-track to extinction. The “king of the jungle” is extinct in 26 African countries. We cannot let Kenya be next. Please donate right away and help us implement a proven solution to reduce human-wildlife conflict and save lion lives.  Please help by making a donation now!

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