Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Are South Africa’s captive lions inbred? Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered lions Inside the race to save West Africa’s endangered ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. They say that cats have nine lives, but they don’t say that about the Serengeti lion. Life is hard and precarious on ...

Lack of connectivity due to decades of extending roads and development into mountain lion habitat, with little regard for the animals’ movement needs, is causing their demise. This has led to high ...

Barriers prevent young mountain lions from migrating in or out to establish their own home ranges and find mates. That’s causing dangerous inbreeding and genetic-diversity declines, leaving some ...

"Or by regularly exchanging lions in fenced reserves with other lions to prevent inbreeding." "We also need to better connect wildlife habitats. This is crucial to keeping the Kenyan lion ...