Table 3 Mean results per country and overall ecological and sociopolitical scores per country (n = 25), which when summed provide an overall fragility score (** denote most fragile countries overall).

From: Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations

Country

No. lion populations

Overall lion range area (km2)

% of overall lion range in country

Mean edge to area ratio

Mean % area overlap with WDPA

Approx % of overall wild lions in country

Mean % of carrying capacity

Mean intensity of edge effect

Mean exposure to other borders

Mean population connectedness (lack of isolation)

Mean human density in lion range

Mean cattle density in lion range

Mean ecological fragility score per country

Rescaled ecological fragility score

Rescaled socio-political score

Country-wide fragility score

Angola

2

95309

7.64

0.05

57.11

0.20

1.64

4.85

0.69

13.50

1.54

0.00

0.26

0.16

0.72

0.88

Benin

1

12347

10.70

0.08

68.96

0.63

16.15

39.71

0.51

12.00

11.82

0.05

0.37

0.60

0.46

1.06

Botswana

4

240521

41.62

0.07

46.43

14.52

47.52

1.88

0.09

22.75

0.83

0.03

0.25

0.13

0.00

0.13

Burkina Faso

1

10407

3.81

0.09

84.12

0.90

19.35

27.68

0.51

12.00

11.02

0.02

0.33

0.45

0.50

0.96

Cameroon

2

19854

4.26

0.06

38.06

1.14

16.43

41.66

0.50

4.50

24.79

0.16

0.48

1.00

0.47

1.47

Central African Republic

2

54949

8.86

0.04

65.77

0.89

12.95

1.86

0.72

4.50

0.41

0.00

0.28

0.25

0.70

0.95

Chad

2

38420

3.03

0.09

87.49

0.74

5.07

19.94

0.73

6.50

14.22

0.08

0.34

0.47

0.71

1.18

Democratic Republic of the Congo

3

61116

2.63

0.09

52.24

0.35

5.28

102.38

0.75

10.67

33.43

0.01

0.41

0.74

0.74

1.48

Ethiopia

13

180314

15.96

0.08

36.07

5.06

17.69

69.56

0.64

14.92

40.74

0.20

0.46

0.93

0.53

1.46

Kenya

3

116819

19.94

0.04

25.02

7.34

23.23

62.70

0.40

20.33

8.55

0.10

0.35

0.50

0.29

0.78

Malawi

3

4268

3.62

0.19

84.83

0.12

11.10

80.45

0.40

13.00

0.81

0.01

0.48

0.99

0.57

1.56**

Mozambique

5

197780

25.12

0.04

10.60

6.18

11.01

20.73

0.44

18.60

8.57

0.01

0.33

0.44

0.45

0.89

Namibia

2

170643

20.71

0.03

19.15

2.93

12.65

2.56

0.13

21.00

1.75

0.05

0.30

0.31

0.10

0.42

Niger

1

2688

0.23

0.13

98.66

0.20

28.29

29.71

0.51

12.00

5.58

0.00

0.35

0.52

0.48

1.00

Nigeria

2

6773

0.75

0.08

97.13

0.08

5.65

53.09

0.70

4.50

23.04

0.02

0.37

0.58

0.67

1.25

Rwanda

1

1001

3.96

0.20

98.70

0.15

86.57

74.02

0.31

15.00

0.00

0.00

0.41

0.72

0.56

1.28

Senegal

1

8234

4.18

0.06

100.00

0.12

2.63

20.05

0.42

0.00

5.04

0.01

0.39

0.68

0.40

1.08

Somalia

1

12346

1.95

0.05

0.00

0.62

44.84

8.92

0.96

8.00

11.08

0.34

0.41

0.72

1.00

1.72**

South Africa

4

33035

2.71

0.12

68.70

9.83

93.85

16.45

0.15

11.75

8.33

0.01

0.34

0.49

0.07

0.56

South Sudan

1

19757

3.15

0.04

100.00

0.31

1.88

9.71

0.85

19.00

9.23

0.10

0.21

0.00

0.89

0.89

Sudan

1

8428

0.45

0.06

99.70

0.65

11.35

12.83

0.64

6.00

14.31

0.05

0.31

0.38

0.63

1.01

Tanzania

13

383503

40.77

0.13

32.03

33.51

39.44

69.27

0.33

25.85

88.35

0.15

0.43

0.81

0.29

1.10

Uganda

4

7808

3.23

0.18

99.31

1.41

49.08

164.54

0.72

11.00

12.56

0.07

0.46

0.91

0.53

1.44

Zambia

5

149720

19.93

0.07

72.07

4.63

7.81

9.06

0.35

21.80

3.92

0.01

0.29

0.28

0.33

0.61

Zimbabwe

7

59438

15.21

0.10

31.29

7.47

44.35

12.39

0.32

23.57

10.49

0.05

0.37

0.57

0.38

0.95

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