that’s why the lion is king
top 5 wildlife attractions in nairobi, kenya are… elephants, leopards, rhinos, buffalo and lions. how much would the amboseli national park pay to ensure they retain the 20% the region currently makes from tourism? seems the answer is 4,000 zebras, 3,000 wildebeest and $1.4 million dollars.
the live zebras and wildebeest will be bought over to the park to feed the lions who have had a shortage of food since the recent drought killed off 80% of the herbivores. the lions, being animals that they are, have started killing off livestock and the villagers are non too happy.
i’ve been reading some of the comments attached to this story on cnn and it’s interesting. most seem to feel that zebras have been “food for lions, have been for thousands of years” and because there are only an estimated 2,000 lions remaining, they have no problems with the what the park plan to do. a very small group seem to think it’s disturbing that no one bothered to save the herbivores by providing water during the drought or that there’s something not quite right in interfering with the natural order of things by trekking in food for the lions. which camp do you fall in?
photo courtsey of sublimeshooter23
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