Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations (vol 4, 302, 2023)

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作者：

Nicholson, Samantha K.

Dickman, Amy

Hinks, Amy

Riggio, Jason

Bauer, Hans

Loveridge, Andrew

Becker, Matthew

Begg, Colleen

Bhalla, Shivani

Burnham, Dawn

Cotterill, Alayne

Dolrenry, Stephanie

Droge, Egil

Funston, Paul

Hazzah, Leela

Ikanda, Dennis

Gebresenbet, Fikirte

Henschel, Philipp

Mandisodza-Chikerema, Roseline L.

Mbizah, Moreangels

Hunter, Luke

Jacobsen, Kim

Lindsey, Peter

Maputla, Nakedi

Macdonald, Ewan

Macdonald, David W.

Duff, Resson Kantai

Packer, Craig

Sillero-Zubiri, Claudio

Mudumba, Tutilo

Strampelli, Paolo

Sogbohossou, Etotepe A.

Tyrrell, Peter

Jacobson, Andrew P.

机构：

[1] The Endangered Wildlife Trust, Johannesburg

[2] The University of KwaZulu-Natal, College of Agriculture, Engineering and Science, Private Bag X01, Pietermaritzburg

[3] Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Tubney

[4] Lion Landscapes, Highcliffe, New Road, Devon, Teignmouth

[5] Museum of Wildlife & Fish Biology, Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis

[6] Zambian Carnivore Programme, PO Box 80 Mfuwe Eastern Province, Lusaka

[7] Niassa Carnivore Programme, Postnet Suite 230, Private Bag X18, Rondebosch

[8] Ewaso Lions, PO Box 14996, Nairobi, Nairobi

[9] African Lion Conservation, Cape Town

[10] WWF Tanzania Country Office Plot 252, Kiko Avenue Mikocheni PO Box, Dar es Salaam

[11] Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

[12] Panthera, New York, 10018, NY

[13] Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority P O Box, Harare, Causeway

[14] Wildlife Conservation Action, Harare

[15] Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich

[16] Wildlife Conservation Society, Southern Boulevard, Bronx, 10460, NY

[17] Lion Recovery Fund, Wildlife Conservation Network, Harare

[18] African Wildlife Foundation, Appartement 3 A, 3è niveau Immeuble les Palmiers Kinshasa, Gombe

[19] Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul, 55108, MN

[20] Department of Zoology, Entomology and Fisheries Sciences, Makerere University Kampala, Kampala

[21] Lab of Applied Ecology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi

[22] Department of Environment and Sustainability, Catawba College, Salisbury, NC

来源：

COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT | 2023年 / 4卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1038/s43247-023-00986-0

中图分类号：

X [环境科学、安全科学];

学科分类号：

08 ; 0830 ;

摘要：

Lions are one of the world's most iconic species but are threatened with extinction. Developing effective range-wide conservation plans are crucial but hampered by the relative lack of knowledge on specific threats facing each population and the socio-political context for conservation. Here, we present a range-wide examination of the relative fragility of lion populations, examining socio-political factors alongside ecological ones. We found Ethiopia's Maze National Park had the most ecologically fragile geographic population while Kavango-Zambezi was the least. At a country level, lion populations had highest ecological fragility in Cameroon and Malawi. When we examined socio-political fragility, Somalia was the most fragile lion range country, followed by South Sudan. When socio-political and ecological fragility were combined, lion populations in Maze National Park and Bush-Bush (Somalia) and more broadly, Somalian and Malawian lion populations were the most fragile. These insights should help inform more nuanced and appropriately targeted lion conservation plans.

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