Inadequate Policies for Hunting Large Carnivores (1 of 3) (IMAGE)

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Inadequate Policies for Hunting Large Carnivores (1 of 3)

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Lions are among the large carnivores that have been reduced world-wide by over-hunting. Here, a female lion rests in Zambia's Liuwa Plain National Park. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 18, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Scott Creel at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont., and colleagues was titled, "Questionable policy for large carnivore hunting."

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Scott Creel

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