国际自然保育联盟指出，狮子已在非洲26国绝种，幸存的野生狮子总数在过去20年内锐减43 % ， 约仅剩2万头。
The International Union for Conservation of Nature indicated that the lion had already become extinct in 26 African countries, and the total number of survival wild lions had declined sharply by 43% in the past 20 years with only about 20,000 wild lions left.