Sept. 21, 2026 5:52 PM PT <\/p>\n
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Authorities in northern Tanzania suspect poison may have caused the deaths of 10 lions inside a protected conservation area and UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n
The lions were discovered last week in the Ndutu part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, according to the conservation group overseeing the site.<\/p>\n
\u201cPreliminary findings suggest the animals may have died after ingesting poison,\u201d the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n
An investigation is underway to establish the definitive cause of the deaths inside the area where wildlife including lions, elephants and black rhinos live in proximity with seminomadic Maasai pastoralists.<\/p>\n
The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies lions as vulnerable and says their numbers are declining. Threats facing the species include habitat loss, declining prey populations and human-wildlife conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 21, 2026 5:52 PM PT DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Authorities in northern Tanzania suspect poison may have caused…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1124,299543,299542,634,5732,299545,2193,9576,2061,111,139,69,88069,292158,147,299544,196951,299541,406],"class_list":["post-607797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-authority","tag-black-rhino","tag-conservation-group","tag-death","tag-elephant","tag-international-union","tag-lion","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-nature","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-poisoning","tag-proximity","tag-science","tag-seminomadic-maasai-pastoralist","tag-specie","tag-tanzania-conservation-area","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}