This seven-day safari will be hosted by Dr Kim Young-Overton, a recognized specialist in threatened species and ecosystem management. The trip will take place in the wildlife-rich Busanga Plains of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — In April 2024, the Blank Park Zoo announced plans for the largest renovation project in its 60-year history, and on Tuesday morning, zoo leaders broke ground on phase one. The new ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Blank Park Zoo in Des Moines recently broke ground on a new facility to help save African lions. The Marjorie A. Foster Lion Conservation Center will more than triple the Blank Park ...

All too often African safaris gloss over the nitty-gritty of conservation. That’s not the case with this trip by Wilderness Safaris, though, which is designed to give travelers an in-depth ...

NEW AT SIX. EXPANSION OF THE LION ENCLOSURE AT THE BLANK PARK ZOO IS OFFICIALLY UNDERWAY. THE ZOO BROKE GROUND ON THE MARJORIE, A FOSTER LION CONSERVATION CENTER. ZOO LEADERS SAY IT WILL TRIPLE THE ...

Experts share their knowledge on lion conservation in a new book Pieter Kat The African lion is one of the most iconic species in the world. Just look at all the lions in art, as statues, on logos, on ...

Very few animals in the wild have the power to evoke such awe and inspiration as the African lion. Yet despite our reverence for these iconic big cats, lions have been wiped out of large swathes of ...

DETROW: Or some version of that sound. This particular roar comes courtesy of a lion named Jeronimo (ph). Well, what if I told you that this sound... (SOUNDBITE OF LION ROARING) DETROW: ...Was also a ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — In April 2024, the Blank Park Zoo announced plans for the largest renovation project in its 60-year history, and on Tuesday morning, zoo leaders broke ground on phase one. The new ...

It’s a tough time to be a big cat in Texas, but a coalition calling itself Texans for Mountain Lions is trying to change that. Earlier this month, the organization submitted a petition for rule-making ...

If you wasted no time pulling down your holiday decorations and discovered broken lights or extension cords, don’t throw them ...

On May 21, the forest department of the western Indian state of Gujarat released results of the country’s first lion population estimation since 2020. According to the census, India’s wild lion ...