how many lions in africa?

Answer 1

Here is a site with the wild lion populations. 39,373 was their estimate for Africa in 1996.

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Answer 2

The range of the lion in North Africa and South-West Asia formerly stretched across the coastal forests of northern Africa and from northern Greece across south-west Asia to eastern India. Today the only living representatives of the lions once found throughout much of South-West Asia occur in India's Gir Forest (Nowell and Jackson 1996). This population of the Asiatic lion, Panthera leo persica, is classified as Critically Endangered (CR C2a(ii)). The Asiatic lion population currently stands at approximately 250 mature breeding individuals, all occurring within one area. Since the population now extends beyond the boundary of the lion sanctuary, the numbers are expected to suffer a decrease due to increasing conflict with people.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the lion conservation community works in the context of four regions: West, Central, East and Southern. The lion population is classified as Endangered in the region of West Africa (Bauer and Nowell, in submission). It is isolated from lion populations of Central Africa, with little or no exchange of breeding individuals (Chardonnet 2002, Bauer and Van Der Merwe 2004). The number of mature individuals in West Africa is estimated by two separate recent surveys at 850 (Bauer and Van Der Merwe 2004) and 1,163 (Chardonnet 2002). Both estimates are well below the Endangered criterion level of 2,500. Lions in West Africa are grouped into three isolated subpopulations by Chardonnet (2002) and approximately seven by the African Lion Working Group (Bauer and Van Der Merwe 2004). Chardonnet's (2002) three subpopulations consist of 18 different individual populations, between which there may be some interchange of individuals, although this is unknown. There is disagreement over the size of the largest individual population in West Africa: the African Lion Working Group (Bauer and Van Der Merwe 2004) estimates 100 lions in Burkina Faso's Arly-Singou ecosystem, while Chardonnet (2002) estimates 404 for the same area (mean 250).

Answer 3

STATUS IN WILD

Tragically few. See below.

As a result of widespread persecution, cats in the wild have become one of the most threataened major groups of land animals. Nevertheless, the African lion numbered perhaps 200,000 individuals in 1991. They are generally protected even through some 150 humans have been mauled in the Gir National Park alone. Conversely in the Skeleton Coast Park in West Africa's Namibia the lions are all gone. Some were killed outside park boundaries by livestock herdsmen; others were forced to leave by drought.

Answer 4

POPULATION:
Since the early 1950s, the lion population in Africa has been reduced by half. Today fewer than 21,000 remain in all of Africa.

Answer 5

Ask Badiel and Skinner. They so cleverly managed to count three lions on a shirt, so surely they would be the ideal candidates to count how many lions there are in Africa.

If this doesn't get best answer, there is no justice in the world.

Answer 6

Not enough...and don't forget that not all lions are alike, some subspecies are more endangered than others, and you can't just transport them around willy nilly to make up the numbers in one region or another.

Answer 7

Many!

Answer 8

It depend on what you want to lie on as 2 how you count them

Answer 9

how many lions are there are there

Answer 10

i think that there are many lions in Africa:)))))