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The North-Eastern Central African Republic (CAR) is celebrating the first video and photographic evidence of lion cubs in the region in decades. New footage has revealed a female with three cubs on tow in the Bamingui-Bangoran National Park.

Poaching, habitat loss, and pre-emptive killings to protect livestock have pushed lions in CAR to the brink, and for a long time, only males were seen. This raised concerns as to how the population could survive, but then a female was spotted in 2019. Six years went by without another sighting, and earlier in August a female was sighted who was thought to be lactating. Now, we have video evidence of three cubs, demonstrating that against the odds, there is still hope.

“The three cubs show what’s possible when habitats remain intact and conservation is persistent,” said Luke Hunter, Executive Director of WCS’s Big Cats Program in a release emailed to IFLScience. “Where there is one lioness, there are almost certain to be more; and now that we know there is at least one litter, I’m sure that others will follow.”

“With our partners and the CAR government, we are determined to give these cubs as great a chance as possible to live as wild lions, free of persecution. If we succeed, many years from now the descendants of these cubs will be part of a thriving, protected population many hundreds strong.”

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