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The Lion Recovery Fund (LRF) was created in 2017 by WCN to give conservationists the support they need to address the biggest threats to lions. The LRF invests in projects that protect lions from poaching, retaliatory killing, defend and restore lion habitat, and protect lion prey species from bushmeat poachers and competition with domestic ...
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; a short, rounded head; round ears; and a dark, hairy tuft at the tip of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane.
The Asiatic Lion Reintroduction Project is an initiative of the Indian Government to provide safeguards to the Asiatic lion (Panthera leo persica) [a] from extinction in the wild by means of reintroduction. The last wild population of the Asiatic lion is found in the region of Gir Forest National Park, in the state of Gujarat.
The lion plays a prominent role in The Fables of Pilpay that were translated into Persian, Greek and Hebrew languages between the 8th and 12th centuries. [101] The lion is the symbol of Mahavira, the 24th and last Tirthankara in Jainism. [102] [103] The lion is the third animal of the Burmese zodiac and the sixth animal of the Sinhalese zodiac ...
The new habitat is also home to two species that have never before been on display at the Fort Worth Zoo.
Every morning with cup of hot tea, Michael McMahan takes in the unpolished wildness of L.A.'s 4,000-acre Griffith Park behind his apartment complex. When he's lucky, he captures images of P-22 ...
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
In Africa, lions are killed pre-emptively or in retaliation for preying on livestock. Populations are also threatened by depletion of prey base, loss and conversion of habitat. [9] The lion population in West Africa is fragmented and isolated, comprising fewer than 250 mature individuals. [10] It is threatened by poaching and illegal trade of ...