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We agree lions are in crisis and half the lions have been lost in the past 25 years with as few as 20.000 remaining in Africa.

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Sign the petition aganst medicins made of parts of threatened plant and animal species

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A warm welcome for our new board member Paul Loth! Since the start of this year, Paul has taken over the position of Ralph Buij in the board of Leo Foundation.

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On 7 February 2019 a large male lion was collared with an AWT satellite collar in Lake Nakuru NP, Kenya.

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Recently Prof Hans de Iongh, Chair of the Leo foundation, but also also guest researcher of the Institute of Environmental Sciences Leiden and guest professor at Antwerp university, gave an interview on lion conservation in Africa. This as a contribution to Big Cat Month ( February) on Nat Geo WILD. The interview was held in the appropriate setting of the African savanna of Burgers zoo in Arnhem. Read More

On the 30th of December 2018, the team of Babu Ram, who is part of th NGO NTNC has collared a leopard in Chitwan NP, Nepal. Read More

On the 19^th of December, Leo Foundation board members Laura Bertola and Hans de Iongh attended a special meeting in Givskud zoo. Main topic was the development of a breeding program for the two different subspecies of lions in European zoos.Read More

On the 6th of December 2018, IUCN NL celebrated her 40th anniversary. Leo Foundation congratulates IUCN NL with this joyful fact, and was of course present at the jubilee party.Read More

On the 29th and 30th of November, TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network (https://www.tracenetwork.org/) and the NGO TRAFFIC (https://www.traffic.org/) organized a “Lion Traceability” meeting in Pretoria, South Africa.Read More

On the 8th of August, the Nakuru Lion Project has officially been opened by Hans de Iongh. This has been done by the symbolically handing over one of the satellite collars to the senior warden of Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya.Read More