Our Wild World

A tremendous amount has happened around the landscape for lions- wild, captive, canned, and conservation successes and projects, and now we have the USFW ESA lion listing decision adding to the landscape. As much as 2015 seemed to be a 'bad year for lions', perhaps in the end, as we head into a new year, the lions finally have their voices heard. Between dedicated conservationists, documentary films, one captivating lion, and you dear listener, a shift in global consciousness is creating a tidal wave of change, one that many of us have been working toward and awaiting for a long, long time. With incredible diversity across Africa, and an enormous variety of responsive programs keeping conservation at the heart of the matter. As we focus this year on the many faces and places, today we bring you the particulars and challenges of a given place with my guest Chris Mercer, founder of CACH and the Karoo Wildlife Center in S. W. Africa.