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I crossed paths with this African Lion at the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston, MA.
 
I will donate 15% of the sale of this open edition print to Wildlife Conservation.
 
Panthera Leo is the original icon of the savanna – social, strategic, and built for life in open grasslands and scrub.  Unlike most big cats, lions live in prides, where females do much of the hunting and the group raises cubs together. Once widespread across Africa and beyond, lions are now missing from much of their historic range, and the species is listed as “Vulnerable”.  Many conservation summaries estimate roughly 22,000 to 25,000 adult and subadult lions remain in Africa. Exact counts are tough because lions are hard to survey.  Major threats include habitat loss and fragmentation, declining prey, human-lion conflict near livestock areas, and in some regions there is targeted poaching for body parts.