Alex Braczkowski

It's a very, very good question.

And the reason that it's a very good question is because

the counting mechanism that we use, one of the parameters is called detection probability.

What is the likelihood that you see a lion in a landscape?

And as you can imagine, with a lion that's sitting in a tree, you're driving around and suddenly, boom, from 150 meters, you see a tail hanging out of a tree.

So for that reason, you are seeing them with a very high likelihood.

But that in of itself is this weird, it's kind of like it's deceptive because you're seeing them with such a high frequency.

So you think there's a lot, but actually you're seeing the same individual over and over and over again.

So you have to dissect those two things away from each other.

We do.

So we're about to publish our national census report with the Uganda Wildlife Authority.

So the count that we did in 2018 showed that there was roughly 72 individuals left in a 2,500 square kilometer area, which is a pretty small population.

So to give you an idea, 2,500 square kilometers is about the size of the Maasai Mara, which is probably the most iconic lion population anywhere in Africa, anywhere on planet Earth.

And there you have about 400 lions.

living at a density of about 17 individuals per hundred square kilometers.

This is about an eighth of that.

So this is showing you that although this is an incredibly iconic special population that's doing this wonderful behavioral thing that's bringing in a lot of tourists, they're severely threatened.

So the biggest thing that we need in populations of wildlife, especially wild cats, is we're always interested in the females.

The females are really the lifeblood of any population.

And the reason the females are so important is