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Discovery: Tooth and claw: Lions

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Tooth And Claw

21/06/2021 GMT

Tooth and claw: Lions

BBC World Service - Discovery, Tooth and claw: Lions

Our complex relationship with Earth’s greatest predators by the people who know them best

Adam Hart explores our complex relationship with Earth’s greatest predators.  They’re the archetypal ‘man-eater’. So how best can we manage human-lion conflicts when they occur?

From Aslan to Simba, from the Wizard of Oz to heraldry, children in the West probably recognise this king of beasts before they can name the animals in their own back yards. But what about people who have lions roaming in their back yards literally? To find out more about the archetypal ‘man-eater; and how our increasingly complex relationship with them is playing out in Africa, Professor Adam Hart talks to two female researchers who have spent much of their lives working and living in lion country, helping to manage the wildlife conflicts that are becoming a threat to both humans and beasts.  

Dr Moreangels Mbizah is the Founding Director of Wildlife Conservation Action in Zimbabwe, and Dr Amy Dickman heads up the Ruaha Carnivore Project in Tanzania.

Producer: Rami Tzabar and Beth Eastwood
Presenter: Professor Adam Hart.

(Photo: Lion, Credit: Nicholas Hodges/Getty Images)

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