Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence

ISBN-13: 9781138558038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

Keith Somerville

Opis

This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa.

Spis treści

Foreword by David W. Macdonald  Introduction  1. Lion-human coexistence and competition from the Pleistocene to modern humans  2. Domestication, settlement and the effects on lions  3. Lions from the 14th century to colonial occupation  4. Hunting, conservation and the decline of the lion in colonial Africa and Asia 5. Contemporary coexistence and conflict in Africa  6. The ups and downs of Southern Africa’s lions, and the importance of the trophy hunting debate

O autorze

Professor Keith Somerville is a Member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent, UK, where he teaches at the Centre for Journalism. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London, UK.