Environmentalists in Kenya are worried that an insecticide is being used by farmers to kill lions and other predators.
Carbofuran is a very powerful and toxic insecticide. Spread in the soil, it destroys bugs in the ground and is taken up by plants and kills insects which feed on the sap or foliage. It is so powerful and toxic that it has been banned in Europe. But in Kenya, carbofuran can be bought across the counter without restriction. Among the latest incidents two lions were poisoned and killed in the Maasai Mara game reserve after eating the carcass of a hippo that had ingested carbofuran.
I think that using poisons to kill lions is just a weird and incorrect thing to do. I feel sorry for the innocent lions that died. I think that this will happen again. So somebody has to stop this.
From "http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7460008.stm"
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