This story is about how lions in Africa are on the verge of being extinct and the people that used to kill the lions are actually the ones savings the lions now. This story is from CNN it caught my attention because when I think about Africa I think about Lions, "Sixty years ago, there were probably half a million lions in Africa. Today, there are less than 30,000 lions in all of Africa,” this is a huge drop off of course and I think that it is awesome that people want to stand up for lions and they are one of the most important things in the continent. “The lion is iconic. If there are no lions left in Africa, it will have a significant effect. ... We could lose a lot more than just the lion.”
People protecting lions can make $100 a month they also get free training on how to protect lions. They said that they must change a culture because people wanted to kill lions and that it brought great pride when they killed a lion and now since there are so few left on the continent that they will not be able to sustain one of their most prized animals, the king of the jungle. It is still apart of their culture to hunt lions, but the guardian tries to intervene if he catches wind of a lion hunt.
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