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Lions of Namibia: The Kings of the Desert

Lions of Namibia: The Kings of the Desert

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 27, 2015

Runtime

0h 46m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

75%

Original Title

Lions de Namibie, les rois du désert

Director

Lianne Steenkamp

Description

On the edge of the Namibian desert, cattle farmers are looking for new land to graze their animals. The lions, who occupied these previously wild spaces, are hunted by herd guards, or even slaughtered when they attack cows. Will and Lianne Steenkamp lived for two years in a territory occupied by a 17-year-old lioness - a "queen" -, her two daughters and their five lion cubs. This film traces the process of empowering the young: after learning to hunt alone, they will have to leave the family pack and find young females to reproduce. A necessity all the greater as their species seems threatened.