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$0.5m funding to stop the decline in the population of African lions

African Lion family at Serengeti, Tanzania. Lion Recovery Fund has allocated more than $1.6 million to 19 projects with 14 different organizations working to protects lions and their landscapes across 12 countries in the continent. AFP PHOTO | MINDEN PICTURES

By  NJIRAINI MUCHIRA

Big Life Foundation, which operates in northern Tanzania where human-wildlife conflict has resulted in retaliatory killing of lions, is among six organisations in Africa that have been selected for a $500,000 funding by the Lion Recovery Fund.

The funding targets saving African lions, one of the most iconic and revered animals on the planet, whose numbers are drastically declining, dropping from 200,000 a century ago to just over 20,000 today.

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