Beyond the numbers: Human attitudes and conflict with lions (Panthera leo) in and around Gambella National Park, Ethiopia

AbstractDespite > 60 years of conservation in Uganda's national parks the populations of lions and spotted hyaenas in these areas have never been estimated using a census method. Estimates for some sites have been extrapolated to other protected areas and educated guesses have been made but there has been nothing more definitive. We used a lure count analysis method of call-up counts to estimate populations of the lion Panthera leo and spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the parks where reasonable numbers of these species exist: Queen Elizabeth Protected Area, Murchison Falls Conservation Area and Kidepo Valley National Park. We estimated a total of 408 lions and 324 hyaenas for these three conservation areas. It is unlikely that other conservation areas in Uganda host > 10 lions or > 40 hyaenas. The Queen Elizabeth Protected Area had the largest populations of lions and hyaenas: 140 and 211, respectively. It is estimated that lion numbers have declined by 30% in this protected area since the late 1990s and there are increasing concerns for the long-term viability of both species in Uganda.

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Notes on wild dog Lycaon pictus and lion Panthera leo population trends during a drought in the Kruger National Park

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v38i1.309 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

M.G.L. Mills

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Kruger National Park ◽

Population Trends ◽

Adult Survival ◽

Panthera Leo ◽

Lycaon Pictus ◽

Drought Period ◽

In The Wild ◽

High Predation ◽

Wild Dog

Wild dog Lycaon pictus and lion Panthera leo populations in the Kruger National Park appeared to undergo an increase during a drought period in the early 1990s. Newly established packs, high adult survival and pup productivity contributed to an increase in the wild dog population and evidence for high predation success during the height of the drought is presented. An increase in the lion density between 1989 and 1993 on the northern basalt plains, as well as changes in the structure of the population, seem to be related to changes in prey populations, particularly to a decline in numbers and condition of buffalo Syncerus cafer.

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Genetic insights into dispersal distance and disperser fitness of African lions (Panthera leo) from the latitudinal extremes of the Kruger National Park, South Africa

BMC Genetics ◽

10.1186/s12863-018-0607-x ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Pim van Hooft ◽

Dewald F. Keet ◽

Diana K. Brebner ◽

Armanda D. S. Bastos

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

National Park ◽

Dispersal Distance ◽

Kruger National Park ◽

Panthera Leo ◽

African Lions

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Aspects of the ecology and the behaviour of the Leopard Panthera pardus in the Kalahari desert

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v27i2.585 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

J Du P Bothma ◽

E. A. N Le Riche

Keyword(s):

Water Use ◽

Breeding Season ◽

National Park ◽

Habitat Type ◽

Crocuta Crocuta ◽

Panthera Leo ◽

Panthera Pardus ◽

Dense Vegetation ◽

Kalahari Desert

Tracking in sand revealed data on hunting and kill rates, range, movements, activity, cover and water use, reproduction and interactions with other carnivores, by the leopard Panthera pardus in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park. For leopards in the interior, 812,5 km of tracks were followed for 54 days, and 205,1 km for 15 days for females with cubs. In the Nossob riverbed 30,2 km of tracks were folowed in eight days. Medium-sized mammals featured prominently in the diet of all leopards, with prey used influenced by habitat type. Leopards in the interior moved greater distances than those in the Nossob riverbed. Leopards rested frequently at the onset and end of activity and used dense vegetation and aardvark Orycteropus afer and porcupine Hystrix africaeaustralis burrows as daytime cover. Leopards are independent of water, and females apparently have no definite breeding season. Lions Panthera leo dominate leopards, but the outcome of leopard/spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta encounters depend on the size of the leopard and the number of hyaenas in the pack. Leopards in the Kalahari Desert are opportunists which occupy this harsh envi- ronment successfully.

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To track or to call: comparing methods for estimating population abundance of African lions Panthera leo in Kafue National Park

Biodiversity and Conservation ◽

10.1007/s10531-015-0858-z ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 24 (6) ◽

pp. 1311-1327 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Neil Midlane ◽

M. Justin O’Riain ◽

Guy A. Balme ◽

Luke T. B. Hunter

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Panthera Leo ◽

Population Abundance ◽

African Lions

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Corrigendum to A citizens science approach to monitoring of the Lion Panthera leo (Carnivora: Felidae) population in Niokolo-Koba National Park, Senegal

Journal of Threatened Taxa ◽

10.11609/jott.6248.12.9.16193-16194 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (9) ◽

pp. 16193-16194

Author(s):

Dimitri Dagorne ◽

Abdoulaye Kanté ◽

John B. Rose

Keyword(s):

National Park ◽

Panthera Leo ◽

Science Approach ◽

Threatened Taxa

Following publication of this article on 26 January 2020 (Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(1): 15091–15105), the authors were able to re-examine all of the collected photographs with Sara Blackburn, a expert in lion identification. A corrected section on Identification of individual lions is reproduced below; no other parts of the article require correction.

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