World Lion Day: King of Beasts

Asiatic lion in Sasan Gir National Park, Gujarat, India. Photo by Chris Raven
World Lion Day is the first global campaign to celebrate the importance of the lion worldwide.

Since the dawn of man the lion has played an integral role in our lives: symbolically, religiously, culturally, economically and biologically. To lose the lion from our world would be to lose part of our global heritage.

Despite the lions’ symbolic importance throughout the ages, today they are suffering from a silent extinction across Africa and India.  Knowledge of the King of Beasts’ plight is little known. www.worldlionday.com

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