喀拉哈里大羚羊国家公园里，一头母狮子正在一个岩石围起的水塘边饮水，这个公园建在南非北部开普省的一片3,700平方英里(9,600平方米)的沙漠之中。在二十世纪之交，南非的狮子遭到大肆捕杀，几乎消失殆尽。但在十九世纪九十年代建立的首个国家动物保护区，已取得了显著的成效。
A lioness drinks from a rock-ringed borehole in Kalahari-Gemsbok National Park, a 3,700-square-mile (9,600-square-kilometer) slice of desert in South Africa’s Northern Cape Province. Lions had all but disappeared from South Africa by the turn of the 20th century due to unbridled hunting, but the seeds of a remarkable comeback were planted in the 1890s with the country’s first game reserves. |
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