LION POPULATION FACTS
It's a picture of a wild lioness standing in the middle of a vast dry grassland in beautiful Africa. However, our interpretation is that perhaps, she is trying to survive and contemplating where her pride is and where to go from here.
According to wildlifeday.org, “Over a century ago, there were more than 200,000 wild lions living in Africa, but recent surveys estimate that in the last two decades, lion numbers have declined from approximately 30,000 to about 20,000.” This precipitous decline in wild lion populations, according to National Geographic, is due to poaching, trophy hunting and loss of habitat. As a matter of fact, “the lions are currently listed as vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).