saving africa

It all started with a dream that soon turned to a species saving project guaranteeing the survival of the last of the African lion. It is the year 2050, many predatory species have been nearly wiped from existence thanks to wildlife conservatory groups that believed predators were a hindrance to non-predatory species conservation. Thanks to a bill passed by the UN in the year 2020, an annihilation of predators began and nearly succeeded until a problem arose for ranchers and private land owners faced a new dilemma. Without an abundance of predators, prey animals numbers spiked within a decade and within twenty years nearly wiped out savannas, wild lands and open meadows thanks to their large appetites of vegetation. Seeing their mistake of driving many predator species to extinction, the UN repealed the law of hunting of predatory animals and passed a new law allowing the captive breeding and releasing of the last predators of earth to help curb the prey animal populations that will soon wipe out natural vegetation and ask for an invasive species to thrive and ruin the ecosystems. Groups centralized around the world began extensive breeding programs based on the predator species native to each country and section of the world. The, A New Hope, project focuses on the revival of the Lion and sub feline species of Africa.

There will be other lions mentioned (by name or otherwise) but play no real importance.