“After 35 years of field research in the Serengeti plains, Craig Packer, director of the Lion Research Center at the University of Minnesota, has lost all patience with the romance of African wilderness. Fences, he says, are the only way to stop the precipitous and continuing decline in the number of African lions. ‘Reality has to intrude,’ he said. ‘Do you want to know the two most hated species in Africa, by a mile? Elephants and lions.’ They destroy crops and livestock, he said, and sometimes, in the case of lions, actually eat people. Dr. Packer’s goal is to save lions. Fencing them in, away from people and livestock, is the best way to do that, he believes, both for conservation and economics.”
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