Tell USFWS to Protect African Lions Under the Endangered Species Act

Once numbering over one million by some estimates, African lions now exist in a fraction of their former range and fewer than 35,000 remain in the wild.

African lions have been slipping away at an alarming rate--dropping by 50% in just 30 years--due to habitat loss, disease, loss of prey species, conflicts with humans, and unsustainable trophy hunting and trade in lion parts.

We could begin to address these threats by protecting African lions throughout their remaining range under the Endangered Species Act. The United States is the world's largest importer of lion "trophies." Protecting lions under the Endangered Species Act would put needed, strict limits on the import and sale of lion "trophies" and parts.

This crucial step towards saving African lions is a long time coming; lions are the only big cat that has yet to be granted Endangered Species Act protections.

Please ask the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to protect African lions under the Endangered Species Act.