animals

Saturday, August 27, 2005

lion atacks

which has jumped from 23 million in 1988 to 35 million today. This has reduced the hunting grounds of the lions, of which Tanzania has the biggest population in all of Africa. Around 40 percent of the maulings occurred during the harvest season, when farmers — most of whom can't afford fences — sleep in their fields in make-shift huts to ward off the wild bush pigs that feed on their crops.