{"id":3938,"date":"2019-08-09T11:10:01","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=3938"},"modified":"2019-08-09T11:12:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T11:12:30","slug":"professor-keith-somerville-publishes-new-book-on-the-best-way-to-ensure-lions-and-humans-can-coexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/08\/09\/professor-keith-somerville-publishes-new-book-on-the-best-way-to-ensure-lions-and-humans-can-coexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Keith Somerville publishes new book on the best way to ensure lions and humans can coexist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Cecil the lion in July 2015 focused public attention on conservation issues surrounding this endangered species.<\/p>\n<p>Now a new book by a renowned conservationist at the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/dice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology<\/a> (DICE)\u00a0puts the spotlight on the relationship between people and lions in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3940 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/08\/keith-somerville-book-cropped-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence book cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/08\/keith-somerville-book-cropped-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/08\/keith-somerville-book-cropped.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>In his book, entitled\u00a0<em>Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence<\/em>, Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/journalism\/people\/2238\/somerville-keith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Keith Somerville<\/a>\u00a0places lion conservation in its historical and current political context. The book traces\u00a0man\u2019s relationship with lions through history, from hominids to the Romans, through colonial occupation and independence, and right up to the present day.<\/p>\n<p>It concludes with an examination of the current crisis of conservation and the\u00a0conflict between Western animal welfare concepts and sustainable development,\u00a0thrown into sharp focus by the killing of Cecil the lion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3515 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/files\/2019\/02\/Keith-Somerville.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Keith Somerville\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Professor Somerville said, &#8220;The killing of Cecil the lion brought the issue of lion conservation to the public\u2019s attention.\u00a0Among the questions raised were what was the best form of conservation and how best can lions be saved from extinction in the wild in Africa amid an expanding human population?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My new book aims to answer these questions and provide a roadmap to ensure that this magnificent species can continue to co-exist with humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Humans-and-Lions-Conflict-Conservation-and-Coexistence-1st-Edition\/Somerville\/p\/book\/9781138558038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Humans and Lions: Conflict, Conservation and Coexistence<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is published by Routledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killing of Cecil the lion in July 2015 focused public attention on conservation issues surrounding this endangered species. Now a new book by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/08\/09\/professor-keith-somerville-publishes-new-book-on-the-best-way-to-ensure-lions-and-humans-can-coexist\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":3939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159353,6599,124,70,6600],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3938"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3946,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3938\/revisions\/3946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}