Lions and The Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme

Project Animal(s) : Lions
Project Category : Mammals
Project Region : Africa
Project Type : Conservation
Project URL : https://www.wildcru.org/research/tkpp/
Project is timebound? : No

African lion populations have suffered an estimated 75% range reduction in the last 100 years. Continent wide, there may be as few as 20,000 lions left in the wild with many isolated populations recently disappearing or facing imminent extinction, for which habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict have been identified as primary drivers. The Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme is one of WildCRU’s largest projects, focused on the predators of southern Africa and their conservation and interactions with people. It was initiated in 1999 with the Hwange Lion Research Project in Zimbabwe and was extended into neighbouring Botswana in 2013 to form the Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme. The programme encompasses ecological research with a focus on African lions (and increasingly other predators), ecologically sustainable transboundary land use management in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area and the promotion of coexistence of humans and predators to simultaneously improve human livelihoods and safeguard globally threatened lion populations.

Project Agency : Wildlife Conservation Research Unit(WildCRU)

Project Agency Contact : https://www.wildcru.org/

Project Researcher : Dr Andrew Loveridge

Project Researcher Contact : https://www.wildcru.org/members/dr-andrew-loveridge/

Additional Information :

https://www.wildcru.org/research/history-and-milestones/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/cecil-the-lion/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/area-of-operation/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/lion-ecology/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/monitoring-populations/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/landscape-conservation-2/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/human-lion-coexistence/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/research-methods/
https://www.wildcru.org/research/references-tkpp/