Lions: terceira condicional (B2)
Lion numbers across Africa have fallen by roughly half in three decades, and the cause is not what films suggest. Trophy hunting attracts most public anger, but the majority of lions are killed by herders protecting cattle, usually with poison, and the rest lose their habitat to farmland. Conservationists working in Kenya have shown that reinforced enclosures for livestock reduce retaliatory killing dramatically, at a cost far lower than any reintroduction programme. Reviewing one collapsed population, researchers concluded that if compensation for lost cattle ___ available ten years earlier, the reserve would not have lost its resident prides at all. The lesson is uncomfortable for donors who prefer charismatic projects: the animal is saved by paying farmers, not by filming predators.
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