Too many lions in Zimbabwe wildlife reserve - plans to cull 200 to maintain equilibrium

Zimbabwe's largest wildlife reserve is the Bubye Valley Conservancy and its owners include Charles Davy, father of Prince Harry's former girlfriend Chelsy. The reserve now has more than 500 lions, the most in the country's dwindling wildlife areas and, in order to bring equilibrium, it wants to cull 200 animals.
This situation has arisen with a population explosion that was triggered by the international fury over the death of Cecil last year.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 February 2016.

These lions have been killing other animals and destroying populations of antelope, giraffe, cheetah, leopards and wild dogs. The driest summer on record had kept grasses low, making them prime targets. And, this has been blamed on 'the Cecil effect' - it had resulted from the killing of Cecil the lion, a prized resident of Hwange National Park who was shot dead by U.S. dentist Walter Palmer.
As a result of the international outcry, Palmer had to go into hiding for months and other big-game hunters shied away on fears of receiving the same treatment if they went to Zimbabwe. The drop in oil prices also resulted in a drop in the number of hunters from U.S. states such as Texas and the net result was the gradual build up of the numbers.
The staff at Bubye, which spans some 850,000 acres, feel that the population has become unsustainable and they may be forced to kill 200 lions to keep it under control. However, they have also launched an appeal for other wildlife sanctuaries or institutions to take away the animals first to prevent the culling.


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