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Originally posted by SteveGl:
It seems that you’ve created an entirely new subsection, “Conservation” and within that, the “African Lions Hunting Management And Ecology” forum.

First off, that’s a good start. Hopefully, there will be other forums devoted to other species and conservation issues.

But if is to be of any real value, it must be more than a separate place for the well-informed, misinformed, uninformed and maladjusted to boisterously exchange their opinions.

There must be a data-bank, library or repository where scientific studies, research reports, population surveys, and so on can be uploaded in a standard format (PDF ideally), as well as organized in such a manner that data may be retrieved with relative ease.

That’s no easy task, but it would make a major contribution to the preservation and restoration of wildlife in Africa. The Rhino-Resource-Center has a data-bank of over fifteen thousand reports related to Rhino Conservation alone ... and it’s searchable and browsable by subject, country and taxon.

Rhino-Resource-Center data bank: http://www.rhinoresourcecenter...dex.php?s=1&act=refs

(Reposted from the African Lions Hunting Management And Ecology forum)