However, only about 2,800 of South Africa’s lions are wild. Nearly 70% are captive bred, often used as cubs in petting zoos, then sold off to “canned hunting” outfits where foreign trophy ...

The African lion population is shrinking due to habitat loss, lack of prey and violent contact with humans, including trophy hunting. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing that these ...

Several years ago Cecil the lion was killed by Walter Palmer, sparking an international outcry and greater scrutiny of trophy hunting for the heads, skins, or other body parts of wild animals ...

For some wealthy foreign visitors, it’s the ultimate African experience: hunting a lion. Now an American dentist’s killing of a celebrity lion in Zimbabwe has triggered global outcry ...

In the process, they expanded the range of the African lion by 2.5 million acres, an achievement on par with the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature calls the African lion vulnerable. Hunting advocates say shooting trophy lions helps protect the species by providing revenue to African game ...

Cecil the African lion continues to be the subject of much attention and outrage on social media. The backlash against Minnesota dentist Walter Palmer, the man accused of killing Cecil, has been ...

African wildlife expert Dex Kotze says it is impossible that Palmer's hunting team didn't know it was Cecil. "I mean a black mane lion like that you can see from afar and even on a hunt.