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Young male lions at sunrise in Tanzania.

How hunting lions might actually help save them

Environment

Lions who repeatedly kill livestock are a big problem for farmers, but killing such “problem lions” is an equally big issue for the threatened animals. To save both cattle and cats, conservationists are now trying out mock hunts to chase away lions without getting rid of them for good.

Citizen science project needs your help to catalog Africa’s great animals

Environment

For People and Leopards Outside Mumbai, it’s Largely Live and Let Live

Lifestyle & Belief

Citizen Science to Help Identify African Animals

Environment
The World

Villa Aurora: House of Creativity and Refuge in Los Angeles

Arts, Culture & Media

Escaped Zoo Animals Roam Free in Ohio Town

It’s a bizarre scene in Zanesville, Ohio this morning as police are on the hunt for 48 exotic animals that escaped from the Mushkingum County Animal Farm, a wildlife preserve. The owner of the preserve was found dead, and the animals’ cages were left open. Lions, tigers, bears, zebras, giraffes, cheetahs, and camels were among […]

The Living on Earth Almanac

Facts about… the catamount, a New England mountain lion.

The World

Sea Lions Versus Steelhead Trout

Terry Fitzpatrick reports from Seattle on a provision in the newly rewritten Marine Mammal Protection Act which allows the killing of marine mammals if they threaten the survival of another species. The measure grew out of a competition between fishermen and sea lions over a declining population of steelhead trout, which are easy prey for […]

The World

Seized Menagerie

A trip to the National Wildlife Products Repository in Denver, Colorado could be a fashionista’s fantasy. The storehouse is packed with lynx fur coats, crocodile handbags and turtleskin shoes — booty that would be worth millions if they made it to their

The Beast in the Garden

In the late 1980s the cougar population near Boulder, Colorado grew so large and so accustomed to people that the wild animals started hanging out in neighborhoods and occasionally attacking pets. Eventually, and some would say inevitably, mountain lions went after people. Host Steve Curwood talks with former NPR science reporter David Baron about his […]