REGIONAL LION CONSERVATION STRATEGY FOR WEST AND CENTRAL AFRICA

Conservation Strategy for the Lion (Panthera leo) in Eastern and Southern Africa (PDF)

AFRICAN LION CONSERVATION STRATEGIES

West and Central Africa

Nowell, K., Hunter, L. and Bauer, H. 2006. African Lion Conservation Strategies. Cat News 44: 14.

Hunter, L. 2006. The vanishing lion. Wildlife Conservation November/December: 32-38.

ABOUT THE AFRICAN LION CONSERVATION WORKSHOPS

Lion workshop description document

IUCN ROSA's March 2006 final project report on the African Lion Conservation Workshops

EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN LION CONSERVATION WORKSHOP
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 8-13 JANUARY 2006

Technical session January 8-10: Draft agenda

Strategic planning session January 11-13: Draft agenda

Minutes report by Kristin Howell and Hans Bauer, final version March 2006

Compilation of media coverage of the workshop

BACKGROUND PAPERS

STATUS AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE LION (Panthera leo) IN EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICA. By Hans Bauer, Philippe Chardonnet, and Kristin Nowell. 700 KB Word document.

IMPACTS OF TROPHY HUNTNG ON LIONS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA: RECENT OFFTAKE AND FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS. By Craig Packer, Karyl Whitman, Andrew Loveridge, John Jackson III, and Paul Funston. 750 KB Word document.

LIONS, CONFLICT AND CONSERVATION. By Laurence Frank, Graham Hemson, Hadas Kushnir and Craig Packer. 100 KB Word document.

OTHER RECOMMENDED READING

Bauer, H. and Van Der Merwe, S. 2004. Inventory of free-ranging lions P. leo in Africa. Oryx 38(1): 26-31.

Chardonnet, Ph. 2002. Conservation of the African lion: Contribution to a status survey. International Foundation for the Conservation of Wildlife, France and Conservation Force, USA.

Ferreras, P. and Cousins, S.H. 1996. The use of a Delphi technique with GIS for estimating the global abundance of top predators: The lion in Africa. Unpublished report, International EcoTechnology Research Centre, Cranfield University, UK. (3.7 MB)

Hanssen, L. and Stander, P. 2004. Namibia Large Carnivore Atlas. July, Vol. 1. Predator Conservation Trust, Windhoek.

IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group. Lion, Panthera leo. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Ogada, M.O., Woodroffe, R., Oguge, N.O. and L.G. Frank. 2003. Limiting depredation by African carnivores: the role of livestock husbandry. Cons. Biol. 17(6): 1521-1530.

Packer, C., Altizer, S., Appel, M., Brown, E., Martenson, J., O'Brien, S.J., Roelke-Parker, M., Hofmann-Lehmann, R., and H. Lutz. 1999. Viruses of the Serengeti: patterns of infection and mortality in African lions. J. Anim. Ecol. 68: 1161-1178.

Packer, C., Ikanda, D., Kissui, B., and H. Kushnir. 2005. Lion attacks on humans in Tanzania. Nature 436: 927-928.

Sanderson, E. et al. 2002. Planning to save a species: the jaguar as a model. Conservation Biology 16(1): 58-72. (1 MB)

Whitman, K., Starfield, A.M., Quadling, H.S. and C. Packer. 2004. Sustainable trophy hunting of African lions. Nature, published online, doi:10.1038/nature02395.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group website

African Lion Working Group website

Réseau Ouest et Centre Africain sur le Lion - West and Central African Lion Conservation Network (ROCAL) website