What affects us affects cats
This is a neat little Twitter video of an Asiatic lion wandering onto farmland, not that far from the farmer who captured the video, and towards another Asiatic lion who is resting on the farmland. It is a day in the life of farmers near this famous lion reserve. I sense that they are …
Overview: The African lion habitat includes the plains of the Serengeti in East Africa and woodlands, deserts, dry forest and scrub. Underlying these habitats is the preference for open areas. In open plains lions use the cover of gullies and riverbanks to stalk prey. They also use the cover of night and poor weather …
Hundreds of villagers are being forced out of their homes in central India to make way for a new Asiatic lion sanctuary in an area where the animals were hunted to the brink of extinction in the nineteenth century. The reason why it has been decided to create a second sanctuary for the Asiatic …
It is said there is one captive female lion in Pakistan which was once a wild lion in Afghanistan. If true, this is an incredible story as the lion would be the world’s rarest cat, wild or domestic. The story as told by Wadan Khan who lives in Quetta, Pakistan, is that there were …
Asiatic lion – Photo by DrGaz Introduction Description Name & Classification News April 2010Range History Threats & Conservation Introduction See lion facts for information on both subspecies of lion. There are 359 Asiatic lions left in the wild (Gir National Park) at April 2010 (this figure is quoted as being the same in 2006 …
