World Wildlife Day: Lion, leopard and cheetah in danger of extinction in Mozambique

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World Wildlife Day: Lion, leopard and cheetah in danger of extinction in Mozambique

3:01 CAT | 02 Mar 2018

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Poaching and trafficking wild animals are the main threats to felines in Mozambique, the National Administration of Conservation Areas (ANAC) announced today in connection with World Wildlife Day celebrations.

“In the case of Mozambique, despite various conservation efforts, lions, leopards and cheetahs are in danger of extinction,” as is the case in the rest of the world, an ANAC statement reads.

The risks are linked especially “to demographic and economic factors, including poaching and the trafficking of wild animals”.

The ANAC is following the guidelines of a United Nations programme which determined that in 2018 member states should focus their World Wildlife Day activities on felines, under the banner “Big Cats: Predators Under Threat”.

It is a way “to show that the future of these predators depends on human behaviour and also on actions that can reduce the threat of extinction”, the ANAC says.