Beverly And Dereck Joubert: Are We Being The Best Version Of Ourselves?
Tuesday, August 10th is World Lion Day, so we are re-sharing this conversation with Beverly and Derek Joubert.
"When we were born, there were 450,000 lions, and today there are 20,000 lines. So that's a ninety-five percent decline. There were 750,000 leopards, and now maybe 45,000 leopards left. Cheetah numbers have dropped below 7,000. Tigers have had a little bit of a resurgence, but still under 5,000 and that's really worrying.
We could lose a lot of these animals in the next 10 or 15 years" - Derek Joubert
Are we being the best version of ourselves? That's a question that Beverly and…
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