What will our children say after we let all the lions die? | Patrick Barkham

Manmade policies are wiping out species at an unprecedented rate, yet our politicians allow fat cat hunters to plunder Africa’s dwindling lion populationToughie is a 12-year-old frog with huge black eyes and chestnut-brown skin. Last week, he was found dead in the zoo where he lived alone, and another thread was torn from the tapestry of life on Earth.Toughie was the last known Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog. When he expired, I happened to be reading The Song of the Dodo, by David Qu