Climbing Lions

Climbing Lions

The Tree Climbing Lions in Uganda is part of the wider lion family – The largest cats still roaming the African wild. Lions in general help balance the ecosystem by maintaining the population of herbivores animals like Buffaloes and the different species of antelopes.

Lions also prey on weaker and sick animals helping reduce the spread of diseases and parasites.
Unfortunately, the overall population of lions in Africa has reduced considerably with about 25,000 individual lions still living in the wild. Over 1 million lions roamed Africa’s savanna just a century ago.

One important fact about lions is that the main cause of their massive reduction in number is human interference.

Therefore, the Increased human population has seen lion territory reduce as more land is cleared for farming and settlement.

These Lions have also fallen victim to poaching and new diseases brought by more domestic animals within their vicinity.