On the August 10th edition of Your Call, we’ll have a conversation about conservation funding and the growing international call to outlaw big-game hunting. The recent killing of the Cecil the Lion in Zimbabwe has sparked a worldwide debate over trophy hunting and illegal poaching. There are 34,000 lions in Africa. Three decades ago, there were at least 68,000. Why are lion populations declining? Would an end to trophy hunting help wildlife conservation? It’s Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Greg Warchol, professor of Criminal Justice at Northern Michigan University
Laurence Frank, director of Living With Lions Project, and a research associate at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at U.C. Berkeley
Web Resources:
UC Alumni Magazine:: Lion King: Berkeley Carnivore Research Works to Halt the Decline of African Predators
National Geographic: Cat Out of the Bag: Trophy Hunting Fuels African Lion Bone Trade in Asia
The Guardian: Inside the complicated world of online wildlife trafficking
The Guardian: Trophy hunting just part of the story behind declining lion numbers in Africa
UC Berkeley Blog: Cecil is dead – now what?