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Tragic Poisoning of Lion Cubs in Uganda, a Filmmaker Reflects | National Geographic


hours they’re filming the incredible
tree climbing behavior of his lines
they’re getting bigger they’re getting
stronger and every day means that
they’re closer to survival lions
occasionally climb trees all over Africa
but the two main areas where they climb
trees is here in Queen Elizabeth
National Park and also in lake manyara
and Tanzania they’re all climbing and
they climb these big candelabra trees
and these big fig trees so the news was
really sort of devastating we didn’t
realise as to how much danger these cats
actually were in that village in nearby
the pot I got off the phone I got an SMS
and then I yeah I mean I I was very
emotional I cried but as a ranger there
he spends more time than anybody
a guy called Jimmy kizomba in who spends
hours every single day driving around
the study area telling the tourists
where the Lions are you knew them so
intimately
more intimately than we did idea was it
was a devastating blow to everyone just
because they were the main pride that
everyone was looking at and loved so
much
they were poisoned because they were
eating livestock and the people that had
the livestock didn’t have any money
these people are making a couple of
dollars a day and you can understand
that if one or two cows is all that your
family has you’d probably also poison
those those lions because they’re there
your entire livelihood there your entire
existence so it’s it’s something that’s
just really unfortunate thing there
there is no villain in this story you
know if if it was some rich hunter or
some rich person that did this yes that
would be bad but this is this is
something that just points to like a
much bigger problem facing line conservation across Africa
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