Colchester Zoo has unveiled "multi-million" pound plans to build a new African lion habitat. The Essex-based attraction said it hoped the proposed project would pave the way for a new breeding ...

Sukari celebrated her 20th birthday this past summer. An African lion typically lives less than 17 years, according to the ...

The development had been planned for "several years" but was delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic Colchester Zoo has unveiled "multi-million" pound plans to build a new African lion habitat.

But the reality is that habitat destruction, not trophy hunting, is the main threat to Africa’s lion populations. Other major threats include the loss of prey species and retaliatory killings ...

But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the last three ... The main threats to African lions are human-wildlife conflict and natural prey decline, as well as habitat loss, ...

The causes are multiple—including habitat loss and fragmentation ... In other words, the African lion inhabits an archipelago of insular refuges, and more than a few of those marooned ...

The animals from Africa Alive at Kessingland near Lowestoft, Suffolk, are now at Whipsnade Zoo. The Bedfordshire zoo's lion habitat closed in January after keepers had to put its remaining two ...