Image: Lion distribution

Description: Geographical distribution of lions. Red (and blue) shows areas historically inhabited, blue shows areas currently inhabited.
Title: Lion distribution
Credit: The present distribution in Africa is based upon a map created by 'The African Lion Environmental Research Trust (ALERT) which can be viewed here. http://www.wildlifeextra.com/go/news/lion-reintroduction.html#cr. While I consider this a reliable source, I researched two countries in depth to verify this, Uganda and Namibia. The map is indeed correctly shaded in the National Parks where lions are present. However I did not include the 'Occasional' shaded areas as these are obviously much more ambiguous. For the historic distribution, which will never be completely accurate, I used information here on Wikipedia with its own sources.
Author: Tommyknocker (talk)
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License: Public domain
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