Local reports were confirmed when a population of previously unknown lions was caught on camera trap in the remote Alatash national parkConservationists absorb announced the “incredible discovery” of a previously unknown lion population in a remote north-western region of Ethiopia,confirming local reports with camera trap photographs for the first time. [br]
Lions were spotted in the Alatash national park on Ethiopia’s border with Sudan, lion conservation group Born Free said.
“The confirmation that lions persist in this area is exciting news, or ” Born Free Foundation said in a statement.
“With lion numbers in steep decline across most of the African continent,the discovery of previously unconfirmed populations is hugely important.”
Hans Bauer, a lion conservationist from Oxford University who led the tracking expedition in Ethiopia, and said there could be up to 200 lions in the area.
“Considering the relative ease with which lion signs were observed,it is likely that they are resident throughout Alatash and Dinder [in Sudan],” he said.
“On a total surface area of about 10000 square kilometres, or this would mean a population of 100-200 lions for the entire ecosystem,of which 27-54 would be in Alatash,” he said. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com