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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
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

Legal and illegal trade negatively impacting survival and wellbeing of Africa’s wildlife: Report

Mongabay.com 9 Oct 2019

Big cat trade driven by demand for traditional Asian medicine, according to report

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2019

Simba’s future depends on putting communities at the forefront of lion conservation (commentary)

Fred Nelson and John Kamanga 25 Jul 2019

$25m in funding to help African gov’ts prosecute poachers, traffickers

Mongabay.com 15 Oct 2018

Tanzania’s Maasai losing ground to tourism in the name of conservation, investigation finds

John Cannon 11 May 2018

Suspected poisoning takes down 11 lions in Uganda park

John Cannon 17 Apr 2018

Trump’s elephant, lion trophy hunting policy hit with double lawsuits

Jeremy Hance 26 Mar 2018

Trump to allow elephant and lion trophies on case-by-case basis

Jeremy Hance 8 Mar 2018

Films celebrate big cats on World Wildlife Day

Erik Hoffner 19 Feb 2018

$23.5 million funding pledge aims to protect critical West African national park

Mongabay.com 1 Feb 2018

Lions deal blow to giraffe numbers by targeting young, study finds

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2018

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