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to protect the endangered species. hello. welcome to the programme. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk — as well as the united states, france and china — are to be evacuated "in the coming hours". these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan's military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadc...

Across kenya and that was what made us looking at these lions to see what is happening and what can we do to bring back the lion population. i understand they are more endangered than elephants and lions. that is not something people would messily accept —— elephants and rhinos. nobody knows this. they think there are lots everywhere. but there are only about 20,000 africa and they are only living in 8% at the historical range and since the first lion king and second liking movie the number drop by half and it is a huge concern for notjust the number drop by half and it is a huge concern f...

The women a role to play through lion conservation, and that is why our project, ewaso lions in northern kenya is very much tied into the samburu culture in northern kenya. and something that's very interesting that you've said is that hearing a lion's roar gives you hope. can you explain that? yes. wildlife in general means so much to our culture. we believe, like, such as elephants they are our ancestors. lions, when they roar or they come around my village in samburu, it means that that's a sign, a good sign of hope, that there will be no rain, there will be no drought at all, there will be...

What is happening with this population and what can we do to bring back the lion population. yeah, and i understand they're more endangered than elephants and rhinos. that's not something that people would necessarily expect. no, no—one knows this. they. . .they think there's just lots of lions everywhere, but there's only about 20,000 africa. they're only living in about 8% of their historical range. if you think about it, between the first lion king and second lion king, lion numbers have gone by half — they've dropped by half, so the numbers are really low and it's a huge concern for no...