ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - B - THE LION (Panthera leo)

[lionjaguar]

(11-14-2019, 10:39 AM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(11-14-2019, 03:58 AM)lionjaguar Wrote:

(11-12-2019, 01:29 PM)BorneanTiger Wrote:

(11-12-2019, 12:05 AM)Sully Wrote: Study finds lions face new threat -poaching and trade in their body parts

Governments and conservationists should adopt holistic and collaborative approaches to preventing and halting the poaching of and trade in the body parts of lions.
This call is contained in a new study which provides evidence of this emerging threat to African lion conservation.
The study, published in October in international journal Biodiversity and Conservation, warns that this growing threat could have a devastating affect on lion populations, mirroring similar affects on wild tiger populations.
The study presented data from field surveys conducted in the Mozambican portion of the Greater Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area, an area between SA, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, between 2011 and 2018.
“We documented 49 lion deaths caused by humans across the study area during the entire study period,” the study said.
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.
Teeth and claws were the parts most frequently harvested, with an alarming and dramatic increase from 2014.
“We recorded reports of four cases where lion body parts were confiscated in Mozambique between 2013 and 2017. Of these known cases, canine teeth and claws were confiscated twice, skin, meat and fat once and a full skeleton once.”
The study said two shipments of teeth and claws were confiscated by Mozambican government authorities in 2016 at an international airport. They were destined for Vietnam, with one of the seizures including a combination of lion parts and elephant ivory.

Lead author of the study, Dr Kris Everatt, Panthera’s bushmeat poaching programme manager, said lions already faced a litany threats, from dwindling prey populations to conflict with cattle farmers.

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.
He said factors driving this type of poaching remained poorly understood, but that the number of carcasses of captive-bred lions exported from SA had grown exponentially since 2007.
This trade fed a growing market among upwardly mobile Asians for luxury products, such as lion bone wine, with lion bones used in place of tiger bones, as tiger parts become increasingly scarce.

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/south-a...ody-parts/

Yes, but not totally new, because I mentioned 5 months before in the tiger thread that because tigers or their parts are getting scarcer or harder to obtain, the "tiger-eaters" have turned their attention to lions, particularly canned South African lions, so I wouldn't feel sorry for them if Trump's trade war or a new global recession (which this Chinese newspaper says China won't be able to save the World from) affects their financial ability to keep the murky trade going: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...59216.html

That is so pathetic.

Quote:so I wouldn't feel sorry for them if Trump's trade war or a new global recession

I have Chinese and Vietnamese friends, and I think small populations of them are involving in those markets. Your statement is the same as Trump is correct to banning Arab Muslim immigrants since they are terrorists because of Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda, Taliban, and ISIS. You may not like it, but I feel like many nations in the Middle East will be good friends with China. The United States is keep bombing and helping Israel. Do you even know what happened to Kurds after Trump withdrawal of U.S. troops? Trump is building a wall border between the United States and Mexico. I think Trump is no different than China, Vietnam, and Taiwan.

... I was specifically referring to the people responsible for the murky trade, not all Chinese or Vietnamese people. As in, if those who are responsible for this murky trade in wildlife, by paying poachers to kill these animals, get financially affected by Trump's trade war or a recession, then I have no sympathy for them, because they are using their money for the wrong purpose, but of course, if people who are innocent of things like that get affected, then I would sympathise with them.

I remember an earlier post about the "Bach brothers" of Thailand having an economic empire that is based on poaching and the illegal trade in wildlife, and being associated with at least 3 mainstream Lao companies and a Chinese accomplice known as the "Ivory Queen", and that getting them prosecuted was difficult, at partly due to their connection with corrupt officials. As mentioned by the National Geographic, "Wildlife trafficking is believed to be a multibillion-dollar black market of low risk and high rewards. Anti-wildlife trafficking advocates say successful prosecutions rare." It's guys like the Bach brothers that I'm talking about, I would be happy to see people like them have their income or revenue decreased by a recession or other economic woes, so that it's harder for them to pay people to kill wild animals, not good people in those places who don't do such things: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anima...g-kingpin/, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...ng-network, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/...ng-suspect

I don't think you know how the world works. You look like high school or middle school kid spending your time in online. All of those problems are equally going on in Latin America since I lived in Mexico. The same as other Middle East, and other countries. China, Vietnam, and Taiwan are the highest for sure. Do you think Trump's trade war against UAE and other Middle East countries will prevent Muslims to stop becoming terrorists? What is behind of poaching that western media never going to cover: penury. They will still poach animals to feed their family even if China and Vietnam stop buying those products. China and other western countries are trying to use poor countries in Africa and Latin America to use their resource. You do know coltan in the Congo. I can never understand. Many western Europeans tyrannized other continent since the 15h century. The Native Americans and Africans are the most poor people. China is helping many Africa without any treaty compare to western countries. Many African governments want to Chinese side, and western countries are angry about it. Europe killed entire their animals, moreover animals in different continents first. Then they are making rule for Africa to manage animals in Africa? Does it make sense to you? Some of my African friends think Europe and U.S. shouldn't involve any situations in Africa. I am quarter Palestinian, and everything that comes from UK and France are useless and pathetic. They should rather get rid off nukes they have first. Reply