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Information
Species Name (Scientific): Panthera leo
IUCN Category: Vulnerable
Habitat Type: Forest | Savanna | Shrubland | Grassland | Desert
Geographic Range: Sub-Saharan Africa
African Lions are among the most iconic and revered animals, playing crucial roles in their ecosystems and human culture.
Key conservation efforts include effective protected area management including funding, mitigating anthropogenic causes of mortality such as lion-human conflict, poaching, trophy hunting, and snaring, whilst reducing or mitigating the negative effects of armed conflict.
Primary threats: Humans – most important are indiscriminate, retaliatory, or pre-emptive killing in perceived defence of human life & livestock, habitat loss, trophy hunting, population fragmentation, encroaching agriculture & livestock. Also, prey lost to poaching & bushmeat trade, the trade in lion bones and body parts for traditional medicine (in Africa & Asia).
Additional information
| Fun Facts | ~ Lions have well-developed hearing, enhanced by movable ears that can adjust to the direction of a sound. ~ They can hear prey up to a mile away. |
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| Donation Amount | €5, €10, €25, €50, €100, Your own amount (€1 increments) |
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