If you wanna' help protect lions then train, equip, and directly fund the anti-poacher patrols rather than filtering all aid through a corrupt system. After a few tourist hunters are shot and killed, the pool of potential hunters will be greatly reduced. In fact, with increased risk, in areas where it's difficult to escape with your trophy the pool of potential hunters will fall to zero.
JMHo
if you’ve ever been to the hunting areas of Africa, it is so vast, the only way it gets patrolled is by the professional hunters. They are the ones that control the poachers.
Look up a show called “Ivan Carters WAR”
He is a premier elephant PH and has his own anti poaching unit.
Look at this as well, my friends at Charlton McCollum Safaris http://www.dapuzim.com/, this is their anti poaching report.