The significance of African lions for the financial viability of trophy hunting and the maintenance of wild land.

Recent studies indicate that trophy hunting is impacting negatively on some lion populations, notably in Tanzania. In 2004 there was a proposal to list lions on CITES Appendix I and in 2011 animal-welfare groups petitioned the United States government to list lions as endangered under their Endanger...

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Main Authors: Peter Andrew Lindsey, Guy Andrew Balme, Vernon Richard Booth, Neil Midlane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22247772/?tool=EBI