An adorable litter of rare northern African lion cubs have been born at Whipsnade ... This is driven by a number of reasons, including the loss of prey through unsustainable hunting and human ...

BLANTYRE, Malawi ― In 2012, African Parks, a conservation nonprofit, brought three lions to Malawi’s Majete Wildlife Reserve, ...

The data collected proved that the lion population was low because of low prey availability and direct killing by snares. Other carnivores such as leopards and African wild dogs faced the same ...

But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three generations ... The main threats to African lions are human-wildlife conflict and natural prey decline, as well as ...

Their sensitive hearing means they are able to stalk prey when it’s obscured by dense vegetation and detect their next meal when it’s as far as a mile away. The African lion population has ...

For the greatest of African predators as well as for their prey, life spans tend to be short, more often terminating abruptly than in graceful decline. An adult male lion, if he’s lucky and ...

They primarily inhabit African savannas, or grasslands with scattered ... with chunks of raw horse flesh placed around it. A male lion emerged when the gate opened. But contrary to expectations ...

SINGAPORE: A rare 15-year-old African white lion at the Night Safari was euthanised ... including declining natural prey and habitat loss, but uncertainty remains whether conservation efforts ...