Return of the King: Rewilding Asiatic Lions in the Caucasus & Central Asia

Описание: For thousands of years, the Caucasus and Central Asia echoed with the roar of lions. From the forests and valleys of Armenia and Georgia to the endless steppes and deserts of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Asiatic lions shaped ecosystems, cultures and myths – until humans wiped them out.

In this episode of Return of the King, we explore what happens if the lions come back.

🦁 What’s in this video?
– The lost history of Asiatic lions in the Caucasus, Anatolia, Iran, Iraq and Central Asia
– How and why they went extinct across West and Central Eurasia
– Where lions could realistically be rewilded today in the Caucasus and Central Asia
– Interactions with prey: red deer, roe deer, Persian fallow deer, wild boar, wild horses, wild ass, European and American bison, saiga antelope, gazelles, camels, yaks, future water buffalo, moose, elephants, rhinos and hippos
– Interactions with predators and scavengers: foxes, wolves, golden jackals, dholes, Eurasian lynx, Persian leopards, snow leopards, brown bears, future tigers, cheetahs and hyenas
– How a single apex predator can trigger trophic cascades, restore forests and grasslands, and rebalance entire food webs

This is not about turning Eurasia into Africa.
It’s about restoring a Eurasian ecosystem to its full complexity – prey, predators, scavengers and people living again in a landscape where lions are part of the story, not just a symbol on a flag or an old carving on a gate.

Would you support rewilding Asiatic lions to the Caucasus and Central Asia?
Tell me what you think in the comments. 👇

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