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Drought in Damaraland brings opportunities and threats to desert-adapted lions

Drought in Damaraland brings opportunities and threats to desert-adapted lions

by Talking Humanities | Oct 8, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Professor Keith Somerville reports on a trip to Damaraland in Namibia, where drought and rising temperatures threatens thousands of people and domestic animals but has created “opportunities for lions to thrive”. Driving through a series of communal conservancies in...
Lions and humans: navigating the history and our relationship with the ‘king of beasts’

Lions and humans: navigating the history and our relationship with the ‘king of beasts’

by Talking Humanities | Jul 16, 2019 | Features, History & Classics, Politics & Law, Publications, Research & Resources

Since the death of Cecil the lion at the hands of an American hunter, the issue of the best way to conserve increasingly threatened lion populations has become ever more controversial, says Professor Keith Somerville, whose new book, ‘Humans and Lions. Conflict,...

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