Comment: Conflict with people bigger threat to lion populations than hunting
(WorldNews Environment)

Indeed Professor Keith Somerville, of the University`s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, suggests that demands for hunting bans may actually harm the conservation of lions. Commenting on a draft of the new study due to be published soon under the auspices of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU ) at the University of Oxford, Professor Somerville says it presents a very worrying picture of lion population decline. `The study presents a worrying picture and its estimates of populations confirm the picture I built up from my many studies. My research, using much of the data from WildCRU reports over the last decade,...