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Counting dwindling lions in Africa

FILLING GAPS

LIONS are vulnerable to extinction across Africa, where their numbers have declined by about 36% in the last two decades.

Conservationists like Samantha Nicholson are working hard to prevent this from happening.

This week Nicholson graduated with a PhD from the University of KwaZulu-Natal where her thesis focused on providing an

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