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IUCN Status of Lion in Africa and India
April 2 , 2025
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- IUCN released its first Green Status assessment for the lion (Panthera leo).
- The species has been ranked as ‘Largely Depleted’.
- The new assessment tool is divided into nine recovery categories: Fully recovered, slightly depleted, moderately depleted, largely depleted, critically depleted, extinct in the wild, and indeterminate.
- Lions were previously described as two subspecies: the African Lion (Panthera leo leo) and the Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica).
- The IUCN SSC Cat Specialist Group currently divides lions into
- Panthera leo leo (found in Central Africa,
- West Africa and Asia) and
- Panthera leo melanochaita (found in Southern and East Africa).
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