In what Panthera describes as a "thrilling sign of recovery for the critically endangered West African lion," the video footage shows the big cat eating an animal carcass while her 3-month-old ...

Though they can be confused for their southern relatives, the west African lion, or Panthera leo, is more genetically similar to the Asiatic species in India, The Guardian said.

Panthera, a nonprofit organization, is dedicated to protecting the world's wild big cats, including an effort to increase West African lion populations Alexandra Schonfeld is a features writer at ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Animal rights activists concede the United States has given meaningful protection to African lions. In response to the dramatic decline of wild lions, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

The West African lion, which once numbered in the tens of thousands, could be extinct within 10 years, a conservation group says. Panthera, the global organisation dedicated to protecting wild ...

The African lion used to be thought of as a distinct subspecies, ... Panthera leo melanochaita is doing marginally better with about 18,000 individuals.

Lion scratching itself in the morning sun in Kenya. Image by Rhett Butler/Mongabay. Panthera, an international nonprofit organization whose work contributed to the findings of the study, says that ...

Extinct cave lions (Panthera leo spelaea) likely lacked manes, perhaps making them unappealing to African lions. Photograph by DeAgostini, Getty/Artwork by Mike Donnelly ...

Pound for pound, Australia's extinct marsupial lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) would have made mince meat of today's African lion (Panthera leo) had the two big hyper-carnivores ever squared off in a ...

The lions were previously believed to inhabit 21 protected areas across western Africa, but after intensive, exhausting observation, conservation group Panthera found that the lions remained in ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Lions, that symbol of Africa’s wild beauty, power and freedom, no longer roam in Mali or in Ivory Coast or Ghana or war-shattered eastern Congo. Or most of the rest of West A… ...

Some call it the Cecil the lion effect. A year ago, an American killed a lion in Zimbabwe in what authorities said was an illegal hunt, infuriating people worldwide and invigorating an ...