Kevin Richardson’s unique relationship with some of Africa’s apex predators have opened many doors and captivated the imagination of many people throughout the world. He has presented and produced several documentaries that detail his relationships with the animals and highlight the plight of lions both in captivity and in the wild.
THE KEVIN RICHARDSON
WILDLIFE SANCTUARY’S MISSION
The Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary’s mission is to provide a self-sustaining African carnivore sanctuary for the purposes of wild species preservation. Through education, outreach and funding, our mission is to bring awareness to the rapid decline of large carnivores in Africa due to habitat loss, human-predator conflict, the illegal bush meat trade, unscrupulous hunting, disease, and illegal trade.
CONSERVATION MESSAGE
ON THE LIONS
There are thought to be as few as 15000-20000 lions left in the wild in Africa. Today the biggest threats lions face are habitat loss (largely due to human encroachment), human – lion conflict (retaliatory and pre-emptive killings), illegal bush meat trade (consequences which include indiscriminate snaring and prey depletion), unscrupulous trophy hunting, lion poaching (for the lion bone trade in the far east) and to a lesser extent disease.
Lion populations face a combination of these threats in the affected lion range states where numbers are declining.
•Paw kisses•
It can be 40 deg Celsius outside and the lions will often lie touching each other. It’s something I’ve always found fascinating and perhaps has something to do with social bonding. It’s no different when I’m there with them. I’ll be sitting, doing some emails on my phone or something similar when out of nowhere a paw comes reaching my way. Only thing left to do is kiss it. While we can’t offer you the same paw to kiss, we can offer you the awesome t-shirt I’m wearing. Click the link below and check out our store.
https://thelionwhisperer.teemill.com/
Grab life by the…. 😉
Photo Credit Sarah Skinner
