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Akagera National Park’s lion population has seen an incredible recovery since the reintroduction of the species just six years ago. As apex predators, Akagera’s lions were hunted to local extinction in the late 1990s when refugees returning to Rwanda after the genocide turned to the park’s resources for survival. Lions were absent from the park for almost two decades before African Parks, together with the Rwanda Development Board (RDB), reintroduced seven individuals in 2015, followed by an add

The lions of Akagera National Park in Rwanda are right at home just a few years after their reintroduction. When people returned to the country after the genocide in 1994, many were living directly off the land and lions were poisoned and eventually exterminated to make way for livestock. After assuming management of Akagera in partnership with the Rwandan Development Board in 2010, our primary goal was to return the park to its ‘Big 5’ status. This started with the reintroduction of seven lions