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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25722058
West African lions, a genetically distinct species from the much-protected East African lions, have fewer than 250 adults of breeding age spread across four nations, according to a six-yearlong population survey by the nonprofit group Panthera.
This is a catastrophically low population.
West African lions, a genetically distinct species from the much-protected East African lions, have fewer than 250 adults of breeding age spread across four nations, according to a six-yearlong population survey by the nonprofit group Panthera.
This is a catastrophically low population.
"Our results came as a complete shock; all but a few of the areas we surveyed were basically paper parks, having neither management budgets nor patrol staff, and had lost all their lions and other iconic large mammals," [report co-author Philipp] Henschel told the BBC's Sivaramakrishnan Parameswaran.