We are the leaders in African lion conservation. We are active funding and administering partners in the Okavango, Botswana lion study, Kruger Park lion study, fund technical workshops and other lion projects throughout Africa. Conservation Force initiated the Chardonnet Lion Study, 2002, which is the most comprehensive study ever undertaken for any large cat. It covers the range and status of lion in all of Africa as well as an all-important chapter entitled Driving Forces.

Introduction and Chapter 1 Chapter 2.1 - 2.3 Chapter 2.4 - 2.5 Chapter 3.1 - 3.2 Chapter 3.3 - Conclusion

We initiated and are funding the Usangu/TAWICO African Lion Project - a lion status and monitoring program in Tanzania with one of the largest hunting companies in that country and on the continent.  View the Usangu/TAWICO African Lion Project brochure.
 

We were strongly involved in the Workshop for the development of conservation strategies for the lion Panthera leo in West and Central Africa.

View the Conservation Strategy For The Lion In West And Central Africa report

We were strongly involved in the Workshop for development conservation strategies for the lion Panthera leo in East & Southern Africa. 

• Conservation Strategy for the Lion in East & Southern Africa report
• Conservation Strategy Workshop report
• Status & Distribution report
• Impacts of Trophy Hunting on Lions In Eastern and Southern Africa
• Lions, Conflict & Conservation

We are participating in the WCS's Great Cats Program Lion Conservation Education for African Pastoralists project in Africa.

The RANN-FORCE Botswana Lion Project provides: Sound, state-of the art population estimates; limited selective harvest of post-production males; tolerance for human and livestock losses; value to habitat and prey animals; true value to local people. View the RANN-FORCE Botswana Lion Project brochure.

We are helping to fund the widely viewed and popular educational video on predator conservation and livestock management.  The Living with Lions team is one of the very few conservation organizations dealing directly with the complex human factors that are responsible for the lion’s current plight. View the Living with Lions Interim report.

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What Is All The Roaring About? by John J. Jackson, III
Published March 2006 - Rowland Ward's Guild Of Field Sportsmen  
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  Conservation Status of the Lion (Panthera leo Linnaeus, 1758) in Tanzania
 

  Impacts of Trophy Hunting on Lions in East and Southern Africa

A monumental effort to conserve the African lion in Eastern and Southern Africa

A “technical” workshop aimed at assessing and mapping the range of lion in Eastern and Southern Africa and analyzing potential lion conservation units. The second was a planning meeting to develop a conservation strategy to secure and re-store sustainable lion populations over the next 25 years.