Counting Uganda’s lions: we found that wildlife rangers do a better job than machines

By Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Resilient Conservation Group, Griffith University
Arjun M. Gopalaswamy, Research Associate, Department of Conservation Management, Nelson Mandela University
Duan Biggs, Professor and Chair, Southwestern Environmental Science and Policy, Northern Arizona University
Peter Lindsey, Research associate, Griffith University

A monitoring approach led by wildlife rangers could make for better counting of lions in many parts of their African range.

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