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The Barbary lion is a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. It was also called North African lion , Atlas lion and Egyptian lion . It lived in the mountains and deserts of the Maghreb of North Africa from Morocco to Egypt .
The Barbary lion population in North Africa is extinct since the mid 1960s. [9] The Asiatic lion population survives in Gir Forest National Park and remnant forest habitats in the two hill systems of Gir and Girnar that comprise Gujarat's largest tracts of dry deciduous forest, thorny forest and savanna. [53]
Lions imported to Europe before the middle of the 19th century were possibly foremost Barbary lions from North Africa, or Cape lions from Southern Africa. [218] Another 11 animals thought to be Barbary lions kept in Addis Ababa Zoo are descendants of animals owned by Emperor Haile Selassie.
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. [1] In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho, Djibouti and Eritrea, and are threatened by loss of habitat and prey base, killing by local people in retaliation for loss of livestock, and in several countries also by trophy hunting. [2]
Barbary lion: Population of the northern lion (Panthera leo leo) North Africa Lions existed throughout Egypt in ancient times. [3] The last lion in Libya was killed in 1700, [12] in Tunisia in 1891, in Morocco in 1942 (on the Tizi-N'Tichka pass of the High Atlas), and in Algeria in 1943.
National Park Service Biologist Jeff Sikich has studied the impacts of urbanization and habitat fragmentation on mountain lions in the Santa Monica mountains for two decades. In Liberty Canyon ...
The “world’s loneliest lion” has returned to his natural habitat after he was abandoned in a private zoo for five years. Lion Ruben, 15, was the only animal left in a private zoo in Armenia ...
The history of lions in Europe is part of the wider history of the lion species complex. The rediscovery and confirmation of their presence in Europe , already known by myths , historical accounts and ancient art , was made possible by the finds of fossils of Pleistocene , Holocene and Ancient lions excavated in Europe since the early 19th century.