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Delve deeper into hot topics featured in July’s Geographica articles with help from our all-new Resources. Click on a link, pick up a periodical, browse through a book, and explore! Find the full story in this month’s issue of National Geographic.
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For years, conservationists have worried about the number of African lions killed each year by trophy hunters. Last year, Botswana acted to protect the future of its Kalahari lions by banning all hunting, including that done by farmers shooting stock-raiding cats. Big-game hunters oppose the ban, as do some wildlife biologists who believe that the lion population in and around Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park is healthy and stable enough to allow controlled hunting.
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Botswana Department of Tourism
www.gov.bw/tourism/transfrontier
Read about Kgalagadi, the first official transfrontier park in Africa.
Peace Parks Foundation
www.peaceparks.org
View an interactive geographic information systems (GIS) map of transfrontier conservation areas in southern Africa.
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Funston, Paul. “On the Edge: Dying and Living in the Kalahari,” Africa Geographic (September 2001), 60-66.
Godwin, Peter. “Without Borders: United Africa’s Wildlife Reserves,” National Geographic (September 2001), 2-31.
Joubert, Dereck. The Lions of Savuti: Hunting With the Moon. National Geographic Society, 1997.
Kat, Pieter W., and Chris Harvey. Prides: The Lions of Moremi. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.
Laws, Greg. “Kalahari Transfrontier Lions,” Africa—Environment & Wildlife (July/August1999), 26-35.
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