The Silent Death of the Lions

Director: Axel Gomille
Production Country: Germany
Production Year։ 2016
Duration։ 29 min

Synopsis

The king of the beasts is going through a difficult time. In recent decades lion numbers have dropped by 90 percent and they’ve already gone extinct in fifteen countries. But the rapid decline of wild lion populations is barely noticed by the general public. Has the king of the beasts come to the end of the road? Tanzania is one of the last strongholds of lions. Here an international team of scientists and conservationists are going down new avenues to protect the last lions together with the Maasai. They investigate how lions cope inside and outside protected areas to find a solution: How can these big cats survive in the 21st century?