Let’s take a quick look here at the poetry of nature in motion–a lioness hunting zebra. Quick warning: the zebra doesn’t make it out alive.

It’s a sight to behold, isn’t? Now you might be asking why I’d post such a clip. Well, according to Kenyan wildlife officials, within a generation’s time that might be a sight impossible to behold.

Reuters, via Planet Ark, reports that the entire lion population in Kenya is in extreme danger of being wiped out within 20 years. The culprits? You know this one: “climate change, habitat destruction, disease and conflict with humans.” AKA, “us.” The country has been losing approximately 100 lions every year over the past seven, bringing the overall count in Kenya down to around 2,000. The Kenyan Wildlife Service reports that either that number must be stabilized immediately at the very least, or increase the population to “an ecologically acceptable level.”

Of course, Kenya relies on a healthy lion population for tourism, but there are plenty of reasons to worry about ensuring species survival. One is the unintended ecological impact of losing an entire species in the biosphere, but there’s also just the mere fact that, without lions, we lose drama like this: