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Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2019 1:55 pm**

The targeted poaching of lions for body parts accounted for 35% of known human-caused mortalities across the landscape, it added.

The researchers also found that retaliatory killing for livestock conflict accounted for 51% of mortalities, but body parts were removed in 48% of conflict cases, suggesting that the demand for body parts was escalating conflict killings.

Why do these two reasons for lion killngs grow so fast

Maybe because there are no more tigers, but the national market for body parts for muti??? Also livestock/predator problems should not grow

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2019 2:43 pm**

The coummunities there hate the park (some have lost their villages and livelihoods), they just think they have the costs of the park and no benefits.

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:29 pm**

Everatt said the study demonstrated that lions were increasingly confronting the threat of poaching for body parts, often under the guise of human-lion conflict.

Posted: **Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:35 pm**

I do not doubt that for a minute

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