African lion (Panthera leo)

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1. Story
2. Africa's largest social carnivore, assessed Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, a category it has held in successive assessments since 1996. The 2023 assessment used an estimate of roughly 23,000 adult and subadult lions in Africa; other summaries of the same assessment give a 22,000–25,000 range. Lions are the species that most sharply expresses the conflict at reserve edges: they are the primary draw for photographic tourism and simultaneously the principal cause of livestock loss for pastoralist households living beside reserves, which makes retaliatory killing, not habitat loss alone, a leading proximate threat.
3. Knowledge
4. Maasai Mara National Reserve
5. African lion (Panthera leo)
6. Connections
7. Maasai Mara National Reserve
8. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
9. Serengeti National Park
10. Community conservancy (CBNRM model)
11. Mara River
12. The Mara–Loita migration collapses by about 81%
13. Edge degradation squeezes wildlife into the ecosystem core
14. The Mara River crossings
15. African lion (Panthera leo)
16. Kenya bans sport hunting nationwide
17. Evidence
18. The African lion remains listed as Vulnerable, with the 2023 assessment using an estimate of roughly 23,000 adult and subadult lions in Africa (reported elsewhere as 22,000-25,000); as of September 2023 the IUCN rhino specialist groups estimated about 6,487 black rhinos in the wild, a partial recovery from a mid-1990s low of under 2,500.