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For two weeks in November and December 2013, I inhabited Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia, to volunteer with ALERT. The charity’s four-stage rehabilitation program aims to boost lion numbers in Southern Africa. Working first-hand with the members of ALERT, I witnessed the dedication and research put towards conservation. The aim of this concert, and fundraising, is to raise money for ALERT, to ensure for the conservation of the African Lion.

 

The African Lion faces an existential threat for survival. Numbers have declined from over 300,000 in 1950, to as few as 30,000 today (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/15951/0). This decline is phenomenal, and highlights the struggle of not only the lion, but of African wildlife as a whole. Having spent time in the Zambian bush, poaching is a very real threat. Within a single walk, eighteen snares were found when lion-handlers and volunteers swept an area of the National Park. It is the innovative nature of charities such as ALERT, which stands between the survival of African wildlife, and its destruction.