Vanishing Kings: Desert Lions of the Namib
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Vanishing Kings: Desert Lions of the Namib

Vanishing Kings: Desert Lions of the Namib

2015846 min
Documentary
Released
May 27, 2015
Country
United States of America
Directors
Will SteenkampLianne Steenkamp
On the edge of the Namibian desert, cattle farmers are looking for new land to graze their animals. The lions, who occupied these previously wild spaces, are hunted by herd guards, or even slaughtered when they attack cows. Will and Lianne Steenkamp lived for two years in a territory occupied by a 17-year-old lioness - a "queen" -, her two daughters and their five lion cubs. This film traces the process of empowering the young: after learning to hunt alone, they will have to leave the family pack and find young females to reproduce. A necessity all the greater as their species seems threatened.

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