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The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service suggests to list the African Lion as “Threatened” species. The listing will allow U.S authorities to protect the species under the Endangered Species Act. Here the word “endangered” refers to the species whose existence is at risk.
These lions found in the forests of Africa, hence American needs an official reason to save them from future dangers. Currently, these lions are experiencing three major threats that are migration of human being, loss of prey and unavailability of desired environment.
The law will certainly help the U.S officials to take strict action on the selling and killing of African Lions. Even the law will prohibit U.S citizens to take part in any of these processes. Generally, U.S citizen like to hunt lions, rhinoceroses and elephants in Africa. Therefore, these measures will prevent them from such actions.
The officers will properly create a law to save this species from annihilation. However, the law would not be implemented on the zoos of Africa.
African lions used to live in a large part of Africa. Unfortunately, since several years the African lions are merely found in the 10 chief regions of the continents.
On the whole, the entire population of African Lion has decreased up to a great extent since 1980s. At that era nearly 76,000 lions lived in that continent. Nowadays, only 30,000 African lions are left in the continent, as per the reports of the Agency.
Moreover, the U.S Wildlife and Fish service has opened a public vote cast for nearly 90 days. The vote will show whether public is in favor of this decision or not.
