Where do illegal lion parts come from? A new tool offers answers

Mongabay
Dec 13, 2023, 2:42 am357 pts
Over the past 50 years, lion numbers have decreased by three-quarters. Only 20,000 to 40,000 of these majestic big cats survive in the wild today. A third of lion deaths are a result of poaching, and even where lions are killed in retaliation over livestock predation, in many cases their body parts are…

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