Posted on 17/10/05
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Disappearing lionsLions in East Africa are being killed off wholesale and face elimination from one of their last strongholds, says Laurence Frank, a University of California-Berkeley researcher. "We're talking about an area of 36,000 square miles," he told The San Francisco Chronicle. "It's a huge piece of real estate, and it should be full of lions -- but they're simply not there." Lions have been declining across Africa for decades. Scientists think they probably numbered more than a million in pre-colonial times. Today, he said, only 16,000 to 40,000 African lions exist.
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