Where does most of the world's remaining lion population live?

Answer 1

Africa- yes,but doesnt say much

The barbary and cape lions have disappeared. THere are approximately 300 asiatic lions left in India in the gir forests. They do not have enough space and there is significant worry about disease (an epidemic could wipe out the lot). There has been talk of setting up a second population in the nearby reserve of kuno, but this is in the next door state and the state of gujarat, is determined at the moment to not loose the monopoly on wild asiatic lions even though in the past they would have roamed across India Iran russia, the Middle East and even southern European countries such as Spain and Greece (there are various accounts of lions in ancient texts from early ad)

There are many small parks with a few lions (nakuru national park in Kenya had perhaps 50 when I visited) however due to the small size these are not viable long term, and will either die out or humans will have to translocate new lions in to inject new genetic material into these small populations.

As such I will try to list those populations, that long term can survive without human interference.

Kruger national park - 1500-2000

Etosha national park 250-750

Okovango delta and surrounding area 2500-3500

Serengeti ecosystem - 2700

Selous game reserve - 5000

This accounts for 60-75% of the suspected remaining African lion population. On this list the selous is the only one where lions are hunted within the reserve (the selous is a hunting reserve), however the selous is vaste and can stand the hunting (there has not been a significant drop in population during the last few years). Lion hunting on the edge of kruger is a different matter, here there are not enough to stand hunting, and while no hunting goes on within kruger, many lions are killed around it.

There has been a 90% reduction in the number of wild lions over the last 20-30 years. It is estimated that in 1980 there were 200,000 wild lions in Africa, now few people would put the estimate higher than 25000
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Answer 2

Most lions live in sub-Sahara Africa but there is a small population in India.