News Headline
How Starting Brush Fires Could Save Africa’s Disappearing Lions
Source
Scientific American
Publication Date
2021-03-15
In 2012 a villager walking through the forest in Mozambique’s Niassa Reserve came across a young male lion caught in a poacher’s snare. The lion lay on the ground, a noose of thick wire squeezing its lower torso. Conservation workers later freed the animal, but most lions are not so lucky.