Conservationists to move 7 lions from South Africa to Rwanda

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA

ST. LUCIA, South Africa (AP) — A conservation group plans to move seven lions from South Africa to a national park in Rwanda, where it says the lion population was wiped out 15 years ago.

The five female lions and two males will be transferred beginning Monday to Rwanda's Akagera National Park by truck and plane in a journey lasting more than 24 hours, said African Parks, a South Africa-based group that runs national wildlife parks in Africa.

Cattle herders poisoned the Rwandan park's last lions after parks were left unmanaged following Rwanda's 1994 genocide, according to African Parks. The group manages Akagera, a Rwandan park on the border with Tanzania, and seven other national parks in Africa.

Two parks in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province are donating the lions to Rwanda. On arrival at the Akagera park, the lions will be kept in quarantine in a large enclosure for at least two weeks before they are released into the wilderness.

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Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/936c1d682fcf42f1a278f7d5ba97b690/conservationists-move-7-lions-south-africa-rwanda

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Cattle herders poisoned all the previous Rwandan lions?

This does not bode well for these new transplants. I hope they're better accepted and protected.

[Sunlei]

2. sad, how much wildlife only exists in glorified 'zoos' and canned hunting 'preserves'

[restorefreedom]

3. same thing happens here

except it is wolves and wild mustangs who get abused and killed. cattle ranching, in addition to using hugely disproportionately more water, is also a danger to wildlife because ranchers will protect their $ even if it means killing other creatures.

just another reason we have to move away from a meat based system to feed the world.


i'm ready.. flame away.....

[Sunlei]

4. I agree with you 100%.But try to tell that to the beef industry who gets to graze for $1.00 a month!

on OUR public lands, with free fencing, free reseeding free killing off all the wild animals paid by OUR Federal funds.

while the industry exports most of that 'grass fed beef' to meat hungry china for $60 plus dollars a pound or sells 'grass fed' beef here in the USA for $20++ a pound- plus shipping!

[restorefreedom]

5. it is disgusting

the incestuous relationship between the government and corporatized agriculture that allows this to happen. i am hopeful that with the sea change (no pun honestly) of attitude about climate change, that people AND governments will have to see that the results of large scale animal agriculture speak for themselves.

i think, just as with ssm, we are getting very close to a tipping point which will be followed by great change.

[Sunlei]

6. these huge corps have bought out most of the old school ranches and rolled the industry into

gigantic associations a generation ago. The old owners still live on the property, them & families get to be management part of the industry and probably have a lot of very good association stock income.

Many USA dairy's are now 3,000 or 4,000 cows.,

On the great American grasslands and 'private/ OUR PUBLIC lands, some of the corps/associations are 10,000 + or more cattle who graze almost free on Gov. cost and sell for well over $1,000 each at the point of slaughter. Then its $20 to $80+ a pound to consumers.

They will never stop and even if loss due to whatever, the Gov. will pay the Corps. for the losses

[Thor_MN]

8. I've never paid $20 a pound for beef.

Never seen $80 a pound.

[Sunlei]

9. plus shipping charge :)

http://www.americanfarmersnetwork.com/premium-steaks.html

[Thor_MN]

10. OK, now I've seem what fools pay for beef.

That is nowhere close to the norm and it is disingenuous to represent that as what is commonly charged for beef.

[Thor_MN]

12. Hey good!! It looks like youv'e been doing some reading.

And realized that beef comes from steers, which are pretty much not present on dairies.

You can certainly bid for the rights on public land to graze cattle on, no one is stopping you.

[Thor_MN]

14. So you shop mail order, and those of us that aren't stupid enough to buy $80 a pound

are lower class?

Stay classy.

[Thor_MN]

16. Like I said, you are free to bid on those rights.

You came into a thread about lions in Africa with an axe to grind about beef in the US.

[Sunlei]

17. no, you don't 'bid' on those lands.

I'll just remove the posts answering your $80 a pound question.

[Thor_MN]

18. Any U.S. citizen or validly licensed business can apply for a BLM grazing permit or lease.

[MisterP]

7. that especially covers creatures of the two-legged variety