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Close up shot of lioness2. Close up shot of lion yawning3. Mid shot of lions4. Various lion 5. Wide shot of Maasai Mara game reserveAP TelevisionMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 5 May 2006.\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close up shot of lioness\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up shot of lion yawning\u003cbr/\u003e3. Mid shot of lions\u003cbr/\u003e4. Various lion \u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide shot of Maasai Mara game reserve\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 24 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e6. Various lioness\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNairobi, Kenya, 19 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide shot of Paula Kahumba.\u003cbr/\u003e8. Close up of Paula Kahumba typing on her computer.\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paula Kahumba, Executive Director, Wildlife Direct:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The reason why people are using Carbofuran to kill lions is because it's very cheap. It only costs less than two dollars (US) to buy half a kilogram of this stuff. It is very effective, has no taste, no smell and it doesn't look like anything, you can't even see it. Lions will pick it up and eat it very easily and it is very lethal. It takes a tiny amount to kill a lion. Cats are very, very sensitive to this product.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 24 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e10. Various of lioness eating a zebra carcass.\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eNairobi, Kenya, 19 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paula Kahumba, Executive Director, Wildlife Direct:\u003cbr/\u003e\"And so it has become an easy way of getting rid of a problem which is lions for those communities who live out in the rangelands and the areas surrounding our national parks. They come into conflict with lions every now and again, they get very upset when they lose a cow to lions and their solution is kill the lions.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 25 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide shot of dead cow.\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide shot of Samuel Borankei and his cattle.\u003cbr/\u003e14. Mid shot of Samuel Borankei and his cattle.\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (Swahili) Samuel Borankei, Maasai herdsman,\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are very affected by the severe drought so we have to take our cattle into the reserves to graze and we lace our cattle with this pesticide so we are not hassled by the lions.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 24 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e16. Various zebras\u003cbr/\u003e17. Various lionesses\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television \u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 25 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e18. Wide shot of Arthur Gujevski and friend.\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid shot of Arthur Gujevski and friend\u003cbr/\u003e20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Arthur Gujevski, Polish tourist,\u003cbr/\u003e\"It should not be like that. Something should be changed here because lions are very nice animals. We like lions. Kings of this Maasai Mara park.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eMaasai Mara Game Reserve, Maasai Mara, Kenya, 24 September 2009\u003cbr/\u003e21. Various lioness \u003cbr/\u003eKenya's 2,000 lions are at grave risk from repeated drought and a poisonous pesticide that wildlife officials have blamed for 76 lion deaths since 2001. \u003cbr/\u003eIn what has now become competition between man and beast for pastures, Maasai herdsmen are invading parks and reserves across the country leaving behind carcasses laced with a toxic pesticide that contaminates the food chain and kills the lions. \u003cbr/\u003eLions on the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.\u003cbr/\u003eTourists flock to the country to see Kenya's big five: lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalos.\u003cbr/\u003eThe animals reside here in the lush green landscapes of the Maasai Mara reserve. \u003cbr/\u003eBut drought elsewhere has ravaged the grasslands of this country.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's forced the Maasai herdsmen and their cattle to invade this protected area measuring 1,510-sq. kilometres (585-sq. Miles).\u003cbr/\u003eAnd now the lion population is dwindling as a result of deliberate poisoning.\u003cbr/\u003eCow carcasses and other prey are being contaminated by Carbofuran, a pesticide marketed as Furadan by a Philadelphia-based company, FMC Corp. \u003cbr/\u003e\"The reason why people are using Carbofuran to kill lions is because it's very cheap. It only costs less than two dollars (US) to buy half a kilogram of this stuff. It is very effective, has no taste, no smell and it doesn't look like anything, you can't even see it. Lions will pick it up and eat it very easily and it is very lethal. It takes a tiny amount to kill a lion. Cats are very very sensitive to this product,\" Explains Paula Kahumba, the executive director of Wildlife Direct, a Kenyan based conservation organisation.\u003cbr/\u003e\"So it has become an easy way of getting rid of a problem which is lions for those communities who live out in the rangelands and the areas surrounding our national parks. They come into conflict with lions every now and again, get very upset when they lose a cow to lions and their solution is kill the lions,\" she adds.  \u003cbr/\u003eGovernment scientists say that at least 76 lions have been killed since 2001 after eating prey contaminated by Carbofuran.\u003cbr/\u003eThe pesticide is used in Kenya to control insects on crops such as corn, rice and sorghum and has now become an effective tool for Maasai herdsmen when dealing with a lion nuisance. \u003cbr/\u003eAs the drought bites ever deeper, Maasai herdsmen are losing their only source of wealth and prestige amongst their clansmen - their cattle. \u003cbr/\u003eAnd as the Maasai zone their livestock into the large semi-arid reserves that they share with the lions they will do anything to protect their stock.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are very affected by the severe drought, so we have to take our cattle into the reserves to graze and we lace our cattle with this pesticide so we are not hassled by the lions,\" says Samuel Borankei, a Maasai herdsman in Maasai Mara.\u003cbr/\u003eFuradan has been under Environmental Protection Agency review for years in the Unites States. \u003cbr/\u003eIts granular form was banned in the mid-1990s because it was blamed for killing millions of migratory birds. \u003cbr/\u003eThe agency began its effort to remove the pesticide completely from the market in 2006. It  issued a final rule in May 2009 banning the use of the pesticide on food crops, saying it poses an unacceptable health risk, especially to children.\u003cbr/\u003eNeedless to say, the lions in Maasai Mara are one of the Kenya's main attractions.\u003cbr/\u003eThey play a vital role in boosting tourism -  one of Kenya's top foreign exchange earners, which also stands threatened.\u003cbr/\u003e\"It should not be like that. Something should be changed here because lions are very nice animals. We like lions. Kings of this Maasai Mara park,\" says Arthur Gujevski, a Polish tourist visiting the Maasai Mara game reserve.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a fact sheet, the U.S. based Environmental Protection Agency says Carbofuran \"can over-stimulate the nervous system, causing nausea, dizziness, confusion and, at very high exposures, respiratory paralysis and death.\" \u003cbr/\u003eDeath is almost always the case when lions come into contact with carcasses laced with large amounts of the pesticide.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials at FMC Corp. denounce the practice of killing lions using Carbofuran and say they are taking \"aggressive action\" to stop shipments to Uganda and Tanzania, and are beginning a buy-back programme in Kenya.\u003cbr/\u003eCarbofuran has already been banned in Europe and a new ban in the United States will go into effect at the end of the year.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the chemical comes from a number of overseas suppliers and still remains available to Maasai herdsmen over the counter in Kenyan 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