The Faceless Lions of Mozambique

[Lisbeth]

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

[Klipspringer]

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.

[Richprins]

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.

[Lisbeth]

I do not doubt that for a minute