Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Asiatic Lion cub lies on a roadway and villagers wait for it to move on as they return home after the day's work at the Gir ...

In Gir National Park, Asiatic lions reign over a 1,900-square-kilometre (735-square-mile) expanse of savannah and acacia and teak forests, their last refuge. For a few minutes, cameras clicked wildly ...

It should be good news that population numbers for the critically endangered Asiatic lion have increased - instead it's put them under more threat than ever. The Asiatic Lion or the Indian Lion is a ...

The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats. It once ranged widely throughout ...

The lions were hunted to the brink of extinction in India, before a ban on killing the cats was put in place in Gujarat a century ago. Recent conservation efforts, have seen the state’s lion ...

(CNN) — Five-year-old Pulsing Ajnera was playing with his brothers in a field near their home in the western Indian state of Gujarat, when a lion “came out of nowhere,” his grieving father told CNN.