Save Kenya's Wild Lions - Help Ban Deadly Neurotoxin

It's horrifying. Right now, a poison made by a U.S. company %u2013 a product that the Environmental Protection Agency says is too toxic to be used in America %u2013 is threatening the extinction of the majestic African lion.

If we don't do something soon, these great cats could vanish from one of their last remaining homes in the wild.

Just a handful of carbofuran %u2013 a deadly neurotoxin that is banned in the U.S. %u2013 can kill an entire pride of lions. Sadly, this awful poison is still sold in stores (and widely used) across Kenya and East Africa.

Just 50 years ago, it is estimated that nearly a half a million lions could be found in Africa. Now lion experts say that as few as 16,000 remain a staggering decline of more than 95%. In Kenya, home to world-famous wild lions, the story is especially sad.


The Kenya Wildlife Service estimates that fewer than 2,000 of these majestic great cats now remain in Kenya %u2013 down from an estimated 35,000 that made their home in the country just 50 years ago. According to the agency, one hundred lions are killed each year %u2013 many by carbofuran.

If Kenya's lions continue their precipitous decline, there will not be a single wild lion left in the country in 20 years.

To address this crisis, our friends at Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund have been asked by some of Africa's leading conservationists to intervene. Defenders helped to ban carbofuran in the United States.

At least seventy-six lions have been confirmed killed by carbofuran, with many more deaths left unreported. And while it is a crime in Kenya to use this deadly poison to kill lions,  very few have ever been arrested for poisoning a lion with carbofuran.

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