New Delhi, Oct. 3 -- Pieter Kat, the CEO of LionAid, a charity working for the cause of wild African lions, has warned that the status quo over the decline of Africa's lions can no longer be tolerated and will further drive the iconic cats towards the precipice.

Kat, in an essay titled Saving Africa's Lions which is part of a new book titled The Last Lions, has also called for implementing effective and broad-scale programmes by local and international NGOs operating in Africa. These should be supported and augmented by local governments, according to the essay by Kat, an excerpt of which was recently published in Smithsonian. Unless this is done, Africa's lions will continue to decline, according to Kat.

The expert also attributed vari...