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Samburu women part of the Mama Simba programme. Image by Anthony Ochieng/Ewaso Lions.

Women can help rebuild our relationship with lions: Voices from the land (commentary)

Mama Simba, Victoria Wanjohi 6 Nov 2025
Members of the Nazareth Baptist (Shembe) Church in South Africa wearing both wildlife skins and synthetic Heritage Furs provided in partnership with Panthera. Image courtesy of Gareth Whittington-Jones/Panthera.

Study reveals overlooked cultural threat to wildcats across Africa

Charles Mpaka 22 Oct 2025
Bouba Ndjida is one of the only sites in Central Africa where we are seeing the early signs of recovery in the population.

Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain

Leocadia Bongben 30 Sep 2025
Lions in South Africa. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler

Counting kings: How annual lion surveys reveal the health of Africa’s protected areas (commentary)

Jon Ayers 29 Sep 2025
A lion in Western Cape, South Africa.

Learning to live with lions: Interview with Claw Conservancy’s Andrew Stein

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Aug 2025
Banner image: A lion guarding its territory in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Image by Giles Laurent via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?

Kristine Sabillo 8 Aug 2025

Czech zoo welcomes 4 rare Barbary lion cubs whose population is extinct in the wild

Associated Press 6 Aug 2025

Scat-sampling DNA tool shows potential in African carnivore conservation

Dann Okoth 19 May 2025
A male African lion in Serengeti National Park.

Trophies, body parts & live animals dominate global lion trade, data show

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 8 May 2025

What do CITES data tell us about the legal wildcat trade?

Alex Shaw, Spoorthy Raman 7 Apr 2025
A lion at Ruaha National Park.

Chain-link fencing protects livestock from big cat attacks in Tanzania: Study

Gilbert Nakweya 31 Mar 2025
The number of lions in the reserve had been rising since the introduction of three lions in 2012. The population now stands at between 80 and 100, according to the officials at the reserve

In Malawi reserve, contraceptives help balance lion and prey populations

Charles Mpaka 19 Mar 2025

Study links African lion survival to prey availability

Charles Mpaka 21 Feb 2025
A pride of lions inside Queen Elizabeth National Park. Photo by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Uganda’s tree-climbing lions grow scarce amid nationwide decline of the big cat

Gilbert Nakweya 29 Jan 2025

Where do illegal lion parts come from? A new tool offers answers

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
Two chimpanzees in the wild

Trafficked: Kidnapped chimps, jailed rhino horn traffickers, and seized donkey parts

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2022
Clouded leopard in India. Photo credit: Steve Winter/National Geographic

Small cats should be a conservation priority, says Panthera’s new board chair Jonathan Ayers

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Sep 2021

Conservation after coronavirus: We need to diversify and innovate (commentary)

Jonathan Ayers and Frederic Launay 2 Sep 2021
Wild dog. Photo credit: Niassa Carnivore Project NO RE-USE PERMITTED

Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&A with Colleen Begg

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Jun 2021

Sri Lanka zoo lion contracts COVID-19 as reports of animal infections rise

Malaka Rodrigo 25 Jun 2021
Tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park photograph wildlife. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

Private investors look to high-end tourism to fund conservation in Mozambique

Marlowe Starling 24 Jun 2021
Africa's largest population of eastern chimpanzees live in Bili-Uéré. Image by gombe069 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Deforestation intensifies in northern DRC protected areas

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Jun 2021
Lioness in Tanzania. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Keeping animals wild vs ‘safe’ should be prioritized, lion biologists argue (commentary)

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance 14 May 2021

South Africa pulls the plug on controversial captive lion industry

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2021

Captive lions kept in ‘stressful conditions’ create perfect recipe for disease, experts say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Apr 2021

How social are lions? Candid Animal Cam heads to the savannah

Romina Castagnino 11 Aug 2020

Five years after the death of Cecil the Lion, trophy hunting debate rages on

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2020

Conservationists find opportunity and community amidst current crises

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jun 2020
Lion. Image by Tambako the Jaguar via Flickr (CC BY-ND-2.0)

Coronavirus is a crisis for South Africa’s captive lions, campaigners warn

James Fair 13 Apr 2020

Some lions adapted to hunting in water, and that’s important for conservationists to understand (commentary)

Simon Dures 9 Mar 2020

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