Hans Bauer

TL;DR: This article defined African savannahs as being those areas that receive between 300 and 1,500mm of rain annually and defined lion areas as places that likely have resident lion populations using high-resolution satellite imagery and human population density data.

TL;DR: This work relates African lion population densities and population trends to contrasting management practices across 42 sites in 11 countries to show that lions in unfenced reserves are highly sensitive to human population density in surrounding communities, and unfenced populations are frequently subjected to density-independent factors.

TL;DR: Almost all lion populations that historically exceeded ∼500 individuals are declining, but lion conservation is successful in southern Africa, in part because of the proliferation of reintroduced lions in small, fenced, intensively managed, and funded reserves.

TL;DR: In this paper, an inventory of available information, covering most protected areas and ranging in quality from educated guesses to individually known populations, gives a conservative estimate of 16,500-30,000 free ranging lions in Africa.

TL;DR: Waza National Park, Cameroon, is representative of trends towards more participatory protected area management in Africa as mentioned in this paper, and respondents' attitudes towards conservation were positive, motivated by both use and intrinsic values, and with reference to future generations.