Authorities suspect poisoning caused deaths at popular tourist destination
Eleven lions, including eight lion cubs, have been found dead in Queen Elizabeth national park in Uganda after possibly being poisoned, a conservation official said on Thursday. The three lionesses and eight cubs were found dead near Hamukungu fishing village in the popular tourist destination.
“An investigation has been opened, but we suspect poisoning,” said Bashir Hangi, a communications officer with the Uganda wildlife authority. “It is still only a suspicion. We will try to establish the real cause of death.”
Lions have been killed in a number of poisoning incidents in Uganda. In May 2010, five were killed in the park in another possible poisoning case. Between May 2006 and July 2007, 15 lions died in the area in attacks blamed on landless herdsmen defending their cattle.
The parks grasslands are home to more than 600 species of bird and about 100 types of mammal including buffalo, waterbuck, leopards, hyena and elephants.
Exposing the Big Game 
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Atrocious. And all because of the unnatural raising of livestock. What a hellhole.
…for wildlife, anyway.
My money was on ebola once…..
Now my money’s on the opioid ‘crisis’.
My son and I were discussing conservation issues and he was annoyed, saying Mom do you think anything will get better without radical reduction of human populations
He is right Just too many humans
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Interesting…..I had high hopes for HIV saving African wildlife; ebola just doesn’t spread far enough. I also think opioids are promising, not in Africa of course. But with cops, etc. now carrying the antidote ready to inject, I’ve started having second thoughts about any drastic population reduction thru opioid use.