News Headline

Shocking Study Finds Lions are Nearly Extinct in West Africa

Source
Scientific American

Publication Date
2014-01-09

Physically and emotionally demanding. That’s how Philipp Henschel, Lion Program Survey Coordinator for the big-cat conservation organization Panthera, describes the six years he and other researchers spent combing the wilds of 17 nations looking for the elusive and rarely studied West African lion.

Content
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/extinction-countdown/2014/01/08/lions-extinct-west-africa/