NPR covers 'The Last Lions':
In 1960, there were 400,000 lions living in the wild. Today, there are just 20,000.
"That represents a 90 to 95 percent decline," says National Geographic explorer-in-residence Dereck Joubert. "Unless we start talking about this, these lions will be extinct within the next 10 or 15 years."
Maybe not as cute as penguins, or majestic as elephants, but lions, along with the rest of us, are in the same predicament. It's especially disturbing when you look at the time span involved. Lions have been around for what, millions of years, and in the last 50 or so their numbers have declined by 90%.
This doc is not about lions, it's about us. Sobering.
Narrated by Jeremy Irons.
National Geographic site.
NPR audio 38:58.
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