In the recent assessment, scientists found that more lion cubs were born into Kafue prides from 2018 to 2021.
A half-century of intensive poaching has decimated wildlife populations in Africa's third-largest national park, as it has across much of the continent, with Kafue's free-roaming big cats among the victims.
[1/5] An eight-year-old male African lion rests on the plains of Kafue National Park, Zambia, September 19, 2020.
But the carcasses also attract the critically endangered white-backed vultures, whose population has declined by more than 90% across West Africa in the past 40 years, largely due to poisoning.
"African white-backed vultures will come in really large numbers," said Corinne Kendall, curator of conservation and research at North Carolina Zoo which is leading the program.
Persons:
Kim Young, Overton, Panthera's, Andrew Loveridge, Sebastian Kennerknecht, Corinne Kendall, It's, it's, Kendall, Gloria Dickie, Sharon Singleton
Organizations:
Reuters, Leopards, REUTERS, Africa Parks, Zambia's Department of National Parks and Wildlife, North Carolina Zoo, Thomson
Locations:
Kafue, Park, Zambia, Handout, Africa, West Africa, London