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Blue sharks, which are prized for their fins, swimming off Cape Point in South Africa. Morne Hardenberg

South Africa’s plan to protect sharks needs an urgent update

Sharks grow slowly and produce few young compared to bony fishes. In many cases, this means that their populations are fished out faster than can be replenished if not well managed.
A young lion cub rests in the branches of a large euphorbia tree in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth Conservation Area. Alex Braczkowski

Getting closer to a much better count of Africa’s lions

New science shows that estimates of the African lion numbers are underpinned by weak methods. But several new studies from Kenya and Uganda show that lions can be counted robustly.

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