{"id":379,"date":"2014-10-23T10:16:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/?p=379"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:16:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T10:16:31","slug":"west-african-lion-decline-mirrors-the-loss-of-the-barbary-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/2014\/10\/23\/west-african-lion-decline-mirrors-the-loss-of-the-barbary-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"West African lion decline mirrors  the loss of the Barbary lion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/files\/2014\/10\/west-africa-map-colour1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-344 \" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/files\/2014\/10\/west-africa-map-colour1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"west africa map colour\" width=\"471\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/files\/2014\/10\/west-africa-map-colour1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/files\/2014\/10\/west-africa-map-colour1.jpg 602w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><\/a>The last lions in North Africa ended up in isolated micro populations in Morocco and Algeria (Black et al 2013). Some of these tiny groups quite likely survived for a decade or more in southern Morocco (certainly from the mid 1930s onwards) and North Eastern Algeria (from the 1940s onwards).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Today the picture in West Africa is startlingly similar. In a recent survey, of 21 sites previously considered as known habitat for lions, only four sites still had confirmed presence of lions (indicated in dark orange in the map above).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our research into North African populations suggests that these tiny groups may survive another few years, maybe a decade, perhaps unnoticed even by local people, but will then rapidly decline into oblivion. The sites shown yellow are likely to have micro-populations of lions exisitng at this point already.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Unlike wildife experts at the time of the Barbary lion&#8217;s final demise, we are now much better informed about what this decline would mean and can make choices about how to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Reading:<\/p>\n<p>Black SA, Fellous A, Yamaguchi N, Roberts DL (2013) Examining the Extinction of the Barbary Lion and Its Implications for Felid Conservation. PLoS ONE 8(4): e60174. doi:10.1371\/journal.pone.0060174<\/p>\n<p>Bauer, H. &amp; Nowell, K. (2004) Endangered Classification for West African lions. Cat News, 41, 35-36. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catsg.org\/catsgportal\/red-list\/03_cats-and-red-list\/classification-of-west-african-lions.pdf\">http:\/\/www.catsg.org\/catsgportal\/red-list\/03_cats-and-red-list\/classification-of-west-african-lions.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last lions in North Africa ended up in isolated micro populations in Morocco and Algeria (Black et al 2013). Some of these tiny groups quite likely survived for a decade or more in southern Morocco (certainly from the mid 1930s onwards) and North Eastern Algeria (from the 1940s onwards). Today the picture in West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17622],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/barbarylion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}