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Lions and Warriors: Social factors underlying declining African lion populations and the effect of incentive-based management in Kenya

2009-11-01

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African lion (Panthera leo) populations are in decline throughout most of Africa, but the problem is particularly acute in southern Kenya, where Maasai people are spearing and poisoning lions at a rate that will ensure near term local extinction. Lion killing is shaped by Maasai perception of livestock depredation, socio-economic factors, and the complex relationship between Maasai and conservation. These all affe...

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Literature Corpus work: 1898d23e-63d3-5a6f-b776-1a57524fffa4
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.06.006

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