05256cam a2200445 i 4500 2645527818 TxAuBib 20260130120000.0 250103s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2025005204 9781588348050 $45.00 1588348059 $45.00 (OCoLC)1482059598 TxAuBib rda The last lions [BOOK] / edited by Don Pinnock and Colin Bell ; foreword, David Quammen. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, [2025] ©2025. 487 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Where have all the lions gone? / Dr Andrew Loveridge, Lara Sousa, Samuel Cushman, Žaneta Kaszta & David Macdonald -- The most charismatic of cats / Natalia Borrego -- Saving Africa's Lions / Pieter Kat -- Genetic variability in lions / Laura Bertola -- The poison problem / André Botha -- Lions of the north / Prof Hans Bauer -- Building a lion stronghold / Chiara Fraticelli -- Bouba Ndjida National Park / Paul Funston -- The elusive lions of Ethiopia / Graeme Lemon -- A wildlife refuge comes back to life / African Parks -- A newly discovered migration / Marcus Westberg & African Parks -- Maasai Mara - a fragile Eden / Jonathan and Angela Scott -- Lions return to Amboseli / Jeremy Goss -- Lions on the doorstep / Emma Childs -- Lions, livestock and extinction / Laurence Frank -- Tree-climbing lions of Ishasha / Tutilo Mudumba -- Murchison Falls National Park / Paul Funston -- Lions of hope in the Virungas / Olivier Mukisya, Virunga National Park -- Lions of Akagera / Drew Bantlin, Rob & Andrea Reid -- Living with lions in Ngorongoro / Sally Capper -- Traditional use of lion parts / Jonathan L Kwiyega & Belinda J Mligo -- Dam and be damned: Stiegler's Gorge / Colin Bell -- Tanzania: and now for the good news! / Chris & Monique Fallows -- Where are Angola's lions? / Paul Funston -- Lions: quo vadis Angola? / Colin Bell -- The lions of Liwonde / Chris Badger -- Rewilding Majete / Africa Geographic -- Learning with lions / Thandiwe Mweetwa -- Life with Lady Liuwa / Andrea & Craig Reid -- Understanding coexistence / Colleen Begg, Keith Begg & Agostinho Jorge -- Gorongosa's Lions / James Byrne -- Blood under the carpet / Brent Stapelkamp -- The desert lions of Kunene / Izak Smit & Ingrid Mandt -- The lion miracle in the Makgadikgadi salt pans / Super Sande -- Eye-cows and the value of lateral thinking / Neil R Jordan -- Bringing back the lions of Lapalala / Peter Anderson -- The rewilding of Kwandwe / Ryan Hillier -- Rewilding farmland for lions / Lindy Sutherland -- Lions return to Babanango Game Reserve / Chris Galliers -- White lions / Chad Cocking -- Bones of contention / Don Pinnock -- Killing the king / Ian Michler -- The last lions of Asia / Bhushan Pandya -- Under-tourism, flight shaming and the scourge of over-tourism / Colin Bell -- The last word: Rewilding, the planet's last great hope. "Lion experts and conservationists issue a hopeful call to save one of the animal kingdom's most remarkable creatures. Lions are majestic, fierce, and dying at an alarming rate. The estimated population of 500,000 wild lions that lived in Africa in the 1950s has plummeted to around 20,000 today. The Last Lions is a powerful rallying cry voiced by scientists and conservationists to save the lions before it's too late, with stunning wildlife photography. Alongside 275 extraordinary images that capture the lions' distinctive beauty and strength, the book offers a sweeping exploration of the biology and behavior of lions, and the urgent work to protect them, including: impacts of the lion trade, lion farming, cub petting, canned hunting, and the lion bone trade, past and present distribution and geography, rare white lions, frontline conservation efforts, dynamics and behaviors, paleontological history, the future of lions. With wildlife photography that allows readers to peer intimately into the lives of lions and their prides--including ferociously taking down their prey, napping in trees, and nuzzling each other--the stunning photography inspires advocacy. Chapters from lion experts, including a foreword from nature writer David Quammen, share personal experiences witnessing and working with them, reckon with the continual threats to lions and the efforts to counteract them, and explore the relationship between people, lions, and the land.". 20260130. Lion Conservation Africa. Lion Pictorial works. Animal declines. Animal welfare Moral and ethical aspects. Animals and civilization. Investigative reporting. Wildlife photography. Illustrated works. Bell, Colin, editor. Quammen, David, 1948-, writer of foreword. Pinnock, Don, editor.