Reply to Riggio et al.: Ongoing lion declines across most of Africa warrant urgent action

Affiliations

¹ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom; hans.bauer@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
² Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 73091 Riddarhyttan, Sweden;
³ World Conservation Union, Cat Action Treasury, Cape Neddick, ME 03902;
⁴ Panthera, New York, NY 10018;
⁵ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom;
⁶ Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824;
⁷ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55408.

Comment

Hans Bauer et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016.

. 2016 Jan 12;113(2):E109.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.1522741113. Epub 2015 Dec 30.

¹ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom; hans.bauer@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
² Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 73091 Riddarhyttan, Sweden;
³ World Conservation Union, Cat Action Treasury, Cape Neddick, ME 03902;
⁴ Panthera, New York, NY 10018;
⁵ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom;
⁶ Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824;
⁷ Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology, University of Oxford Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney OX13 5QL, United Kingdom; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55408.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Lion (Panthera leo) populations are declining rapidly across Africa, except in intensively managed areas.
Bauer H, Chapron G, Nowell K, Henschel P, Funston P, Hunter LT, Macdonald DW, Packer C. Bauer H, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015 Dec 1;112(48):14894-9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1500664112. Epub 2015 Oct 26. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2015. PMID: 26504235 Free PMC article.
Lion populations may be declining in Africa but not as Bauer et al. suggest.
Riggio J, Caro T, Dollar L, Durant SM, Jacobson AP, Kiffner C, Pimm SL, van Aarde RJ. Riggio J, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jan 12;113(2):E107-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1521506113. Epub 2015 Dec 30. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 26719424 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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