Magnificent. Exceptional. Skilled. Relentless. Powerful. Life-changing. These are just some of the words six National Geographic photographers used when describing lions they had encountered ...

There are half as many African lions than there were 25 years ago. Conservation programs aim to protect the disappearing species by promoting human-lion cohabitation across the African savanna.

How the world’s largest lion relocation was pulled off. To bring lions back to central Mozambique, logistics ranged from providing safe transport to blessings from the spirit world.

What’s more, Nairobi National Park’s lions are comfortable with humans—and roads. ... a conservationist at southern Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve and a National Geographic grantee.

A closer look at lion evolution offers hope for saving the big cats. For the first time, scientists sequenced the genomes of 20 individual lions, including extinct cave lions, revealing insights ...

Why Cecil the Lion Was So Popular With People "Large, powerful, but regal," Cecil was known for being comfortable around humans—and simply for having a name, say those that knew him.

It’s a welcome antidote to the general bad news concerning lions. The animals have declined from a total population of 450,000 60 years ago, when the Jouberts were born, to today’s count of ...

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 ...

This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lions are complicated creatures, magnificent at a distance yet fearsomely inconvenient to the rural peoples whose fate ...

Across Africa, lion numbers have fallen by 43 percent in the past two decades, to as few as 23,000 animals today.About 3,000 remain in Botswana. The steep declines are primarily driven by ...

National Geographic investigates the fate of lions found in terrible condition earlier this year. During an April 2019 welfare inspection of Pienika Farm, in South Africa’s North West Province ...

(Learn more about the National Geographic Society's work to save big cats.) A lion walks through Tsavo, Kenya. African lions rely on their teeth to capture prey by the neck.