Distribution & Status of Lions & other Large Carnivores in Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga Parks ANGOLA

By Funston, Henschel and others, 2017.  [KAZA TFCA Secretariat]

Softcover; A4 size; 55 pages.

Very good condition: neat and clean. 

Lions are languishing in Angola, a country still reeling and recovering from a devastating three-decades-long civil war that ended in 2002. The aftermath has further devastated the species, which was already experiencing catastrophic declines continent-wide. But new findings from Panthera have inspired a plan to restore lions and replenish populations of other large animals in the area, too.

...We have uncovered rich data about lions and other species throughout Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga National Parks, two of the national parks in Africa and major contributors to the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA). The largest transboundary conservation region in the world, KAZA spans 520,000 km of Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, and Botswana similar in size to France and houses one of Africas largest lion populations. Astonishingly, we discovered that in these two parks where lion numbers reached 1,000 just 12 years ago as few as 10 lions now remain. This is likely due to the fact that lions have little to eat few prey species remain due to bushmeat poaching. Smaller carnivores, however, were found to be faring better, with the survival of approximately 151 cheetahs, 518 leopards, and possibly even 600 African wild dogs...