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[767] [roadmap-lion-9] 1898 bridge-camp killings were a specific railway-and-drought story. They are a genre, not a base rate. 232 Nemo, Jaws, Koko and Cecil still move capture, fear and donations in the same year. 2020: log Lion under “Kuno translocation steps” with 2015. Do not rank the species. Expect more listings, more cameras and more conflict paperwork -- not a sudden best-species ending.
A social pantherine whose prides, Gir relic and 2015 Cecil killing still structure African conservation politics. Why is the lion scored below the tiger on ecological role but above on culture? Lions structure some savanna systems; elephants and wolves outrank both as engineers or keystones in this atlas. Culture is flags, churches and film -- lions win that axis. Scores stay relative across 24 types.
Asiatic lions are a single-forest population with a distinctive belly fold and a thinner mane. A disease or fire there is a subspecies event. The 2015 Hwange killing spiked petitions and some airline trophy bans. Zimbabwe and US Fish and Wildlife arguments did not end trophy hunting as a system.
No. Most African populations are still in long decline outside a few well-funded parks. VU is not a rebound band. What did Born Free fix in the public mind? Elsa the lioness (1960 book, 1966 film) made rehabilitation a children story. Field lion work is pride demography and conflict, not a single tame cat.
Keep 2020, “Kuno translocation steps,” and 2015 together or the note on Lion stops being that year’s record. 2020: log Lion under “Kuno translocation steps” with 2015. Do not rank the species. 20152020
Figures to keep
- Year of the note
- 2020
- Figure to keep
- 2015
- Species
- Lion
- Line in the log
- Kuno translocation steps
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