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closeEmphasis on a ban
Posted by RCampbell on 24 Jun 2012 at 08:13 GMT
However, in a significant minority of hunting areas lions are of key importance, and if hunting of the species was discontinued, hunting operations comprising approximately 59,538 km2 could potentially become unviable in the countries assessed, posing a risk that those areas could be lost as lion habitat.
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0029332#article1.body1.sec4.sec5.p1
As noted above, the emphasis on a lion hunting ban is misplaced, as there are no proposals for a continent-wide ban of lion hunting and no such ban seems practical or enforceable.
This statement also fails to account for the findings that most hunting areas are currently non-viable. The relationship between hunting area viability and conservation potential seems uncertain given this result.