Poisoned family, a buffalo goad, a snare: how a three-legged lion in Uganda still crossed a channel by nigh

Jacob’s remarkable story extends beyond that nighttime crossing. By November 2025, new observations of his hunting behavior ...
ScienceBlog

We tend to think of lions as Africa’s ultimate killers, but a lone lion hunting in daylight succeeds in only about one chase in five, while packs of the endangered, large ...

African wild dog pack in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. Photo by flowcomm via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. The lion owns the human imagination in a way few predators ever have. It is the animal ...

Trophy Hunting: Should We Kill Animals to Save Them?

Trophy hunting fees help fund conservation. Critics say the benefits are exaggerated and that killing big game animals is ...

Living With Lions

Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate is to ...
ABC7 San Francisco

The Trophy-Hunting Industry in Africa Explained

This undated stock photo shows an elephant head with ivory tusks and other hunting trophies in a taxidermy store in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The trophy hunting industry in Africa is receiving new attention ...
Digital Journal

‘Blood Lions’ exposes South Africa’s canned hunting industry

Blood Lions, directed by Bruce Young and Nick Chevallier, premiered on Wednesday at the Durban International Film Festival. The film “shows in intimate detail how lucrative it is to breed lions‚ and ...

South Africa's lion-petting industry: We spent three years investigating and here's what we found

An estimated 8,000 lions are held in captivity in South Africa in about 350 places, ranging from zoos to tourism venues where ...