I’m not sure if they are endangered or not, but saw one article say the population in Africa of lions has gone down 75% in the last fifty years. The primary reason is loss of habitat due to increased human population and changes in land use.
And I don’t know about lions, but with Rhinos, a lot of poaching goes on. In one country they lose over 2 rhinos a day to poaching. They allow legal hunts of 4 or 6 rhinos each year.
I lived for 8 years in Congo and Kenya. The handwringing is being pushed by amoral globalists. No person that calls themselves “conservative” should be echoing the nonsense coming from these leftists.
It used to be that World Wildlife Federation and Greenpeace used to get laughs at FR. This stupid story has brought the leftists tendencies out in some FReepers.