Malik Kulubali gestures as he rests under acacia tree in the village of Daman, 65km (40 miles) southeast of Bamako in this January 11, 2007 file photograph. Kulubali recalls a distant time when lions prowled the villages of southern Mali and the capital Bamako was little more than a village. To match feature MALI-AGRICULTURE/. Picture taken January 11, 2007. REUTERS/Daniel Flynn (MALI)