Lions rediscovered in Ethiopia's Alatash game park
Source: BBC
Lions rediscovered in Ethiopia's Alatash game park
1 February 2016 Africa
A previously unknown population of at least 100 lions has been discovered by a wildlife charity in a remote park in north-western Ethiopia.
Born Free Foundation said it had obtained camera trap images and identified lion tracks in the Alatash area close to the border with Sudan.
The area is thought to have lost all its lions in the 20th Century because of hunting and habitat destruction.
The number of lions in Africa has declined by half since the 1990s.
The lions are thought to be of the Central African sub-species, of which only about 900 were thought to survive, Born Free Foundation's programmes manager, Mark Jones, told the BBC Newsday programme.
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