Friday, May 14, 2010

Details and photos of lions poisoned in Masai Mara

http://baraza.wildlifedirect.org/2010/05/13/details-and-photos-of-lions-poisoned-in-masai-mara/

...The lions lay dead in a traditional homestead where they had been poisoned by eating a cow laced with pesticides by a Masai family. A lioness had died about 5-10 meters away from the cow carcass. The carcasses of a juvenile male and second lioness lay some 30m away. There were piles of dead flies around the cow carcass and the lions had not yet been scavenged. KWS arrested a local man who admitted that he had poisoned the lions with his neighbors. He produced a container that contained pink powder, which he had used to poison the lion. The same pink coloring was visible on the laced meat of the cow carcass used for the poisoning.  KWS have sent samples of the lion carcasses and the pink substance have been sent for toxicological tests to confirm what pesticide was used....

2 comments:

Shauna Bachmeier said...

That is awful :( Makes me sad.

Masai Mara said...

Oh my, that is terrible. The killing of such creatures is illegal and is a terrible crime against wildlife and the delicate food chain that exists in such National Parks such as the Masai Mara.