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This piece comes to us from Simon Nampindo, the Country Director for Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Uganda.
Jacob the lion resting in a tree. (c) Bazil Alidria/WCS.
Jacob is a seven-year-old male lion whose range overlaps Uganda’s border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
In 2018, Jacob was one of 11 lions that our WCS Uganda team, with support from the Lion Recovery Fund, fitted with satellite collars embedded with GPS tracking. The collars enable us to monitor the lions’ movements in real time and minimize fatalities caused by poaching and human-wildlife conflict, two major threats.
Earlier this year, Jacob’s collar also allowed us to help save his life after he lost his left hind leg to a poacher’s trap.