The North-Eastern Central African Republic (CAR) is celebrating the first video and photographic evidence of lion cubs in the region in decades. Following the dedicated efforts of conservation teams, new footage has revealed a female with three cubs in tow in Bamingui-Bangoran National Park. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

“This is the payoff of years of relentless protection and patience,” said Armand Luh Mfone, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Director of Programs for CAR, in a release emailed to IFLScience. “The CAR government, WCS and partners have worked hard to secure this landscape against poaching and conflict. To see not just a lioness, but a mother raising cubs, gives hope that the ecosystem is healin

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