Maimed lions show challenges of 回復 in Mozambican park
GORONGOSA NATIONAL PARK, Mozambique (AP) ― They are amputees, lions that lost paws to wire snares or metal-jaw 罠（にかける）s 始める，決める by poachers.
The 10 or so maimed carnivores 代表する one-sixth of the lions 現在／一般に 監視するd in this 旗艦 国家の park. These 生存者s, 救助（する）d, 扱う／治療するd and 解放（する）d by park staff, 最高潮の場面 the 圧力s of 再構築するing a lion 全住民 that was almost wiped out during a civil war that ended in 1992.
It is one of 自然保護's more 劇の stories in Africa, where many lion 全住民s are dwindling as a growing human presence 押し進めるs into wild areas.
In this undated photo 供給（する）d by Gorongosa Lion 事業／計画（する） a three-month-old lion cub is shown in Gorongosa 国家の Park in Mozambique. Some lions in the park have lost paws to wire snares or metal-jaw 罠（にかける）s 始める，決める by poachers, and have 生き残るd to mate and 追跡（する）, though 女性（の） lions with such 傷害s are unable to raise cubs 首尾よく. The park's 管理／経営 is trying to 再構築する the lion 全住民 in Gorongosa, where much of the 野性生物 was almost wiped out during the Mozambican civil war that ended in 1992.(Paola Bouley/Gorongosa Lion 事業／計画（する） 経由で AP)
The lions are usually not even the ーするつもりであるd 的 of 違法な hunters who want to catch antelopes and other animals for meat in a poor 地域 影をつくる／尾行するd by ぐずぐず残る 衝突 between old civil war 敵s.
The ones that 生き残る the loss of a 四肢 still mate and 追跡（する）, although most become 独房監禁 and the 女性（の）s struggle to raise cubs, partly because they are 傾向がある to getting 感染させるd during the stressful period of lactation. Healthy lions いつかs even attack maimed ones.
There were once an 概算の 200 lions in Gorongosa, then より小数の than 10 after the war. 罠（にかける）s killed seven lions 早期に this year, but at least 14 cubs have been born since June, and 11 have 生き残るd until now.
"One in three of our lions have been 攻撃する，衝突する" by poachers' 罠（にかける）s, said Paola Bouley, who co-設立するd the Gorongosa Lion 事業／計画（する） in 2012. "We've 答える／応じるd 首尾よく to most of them. But we've lost a bunch of lions."
The challenges of 監視するing lions were evident one morning as Bouley 軽く押す／注意を引くd her four-wheel 運動 乗り物 ― she calls it 運動ing "by feeling" ― through tall grass, 跡をつけるing signals from a GPS collar on a healthy lion 指名するd Flavia. 結局の ly, Flavia was glimpsed walking and settling under a tree, though her three cubs were not in sight.
As Bouley 用意が出来ている to leave, her 乗り物 got stuck in a 穴を開ける probably used by 残り／休憩（する）ing warthogs. 同僚s in another 乗り物 clapped their 手渡すs to 区 off Flavia while Bouley's 乗客s hurriedly got out to 押し進める. Fortunately, Flavia kept her distance.
Just 15 パーセント of the Gorongosa park's 4,067 square キロメーターs (1,570 square miles), which 含む 牧草地s, forest and a large mountain, are accessible by road. Still, GPS collars fitted の上に some lions 送信する／伝染させる their どの辺に every few hours, and anti-poaching teams can 答える／応じる quickly to unusual data. For example, no movement for a while could mean a lion is caught in a snare.
This year, newly trained scouts at Gorongosa 設立する 9,200 wire snares and 245 spring-operated "gin 罠（にかける）s," and almost 400 poachers have been caught, によれば Rui Branco, the park's 長，率いる of 法律 施行.
罪人／有罪を宣告するd poachers can be 罰金d and 刑務所，拘置所d, and new 合法的な 改革（する）s will make it easier to 的 罠（にかける） 製造業者s and traffickers higher up in the poaching chain, Branco said. 裁判官s have visited Gorongosa to learn more about poaching, he said.
干ばつ and 緊張s between the 政府 of the 判決，裁定 Frelimo party and Renamo, the main 対立 group with a base in the Gorongosa 地域 in central Mozambique, have 深くするd hardship for nearly 200,000 people around the park.
But さまざまな 事業／計画（する）s are 進行中で to help the community, and the park brings in 隣接地の children for 小旅行するs and educates them about lions and their 役割 in 生成するing 観光旅行，事業 income. This year, the park hosted a 儀式 at which 地元の 長，指導者s bestowed 指名するs ― Tambarare, Muanadimae and Mafambisse ― on new cubs.
Gorongosa's lions drew tourists during the Portuguese 植民地の 支配する that ended in 1975. A park 目印 is the "lion house," an abandoned （軍の）野営地，陣営 building that lions いつかs climbed, かもしれない to ざっと目を通す the plain for prey. The lions' numbers 急落するd during the 虐殺（する） of animals by 武装した 派閥s and others during the civil war.
More data is needed to 確認する that the 回復 of the park's lions, which have an 豊富 of prey to 追跡（する） now that some 野性生物 全住民s are 増加するing again, is on solid 地盤.
"Saving lions across the continent is more and more about 取り組むing 堅い 問題／発行するs like food insecurity and poverty and 地元の governance," Bouley wrote in an email this week. "And that's everything we are taking on in Gorongosa."
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