Lion Conservation Organizations

Lion conservation groups protect and restore wild lion populations. Many of these populations have been on a steep decline due to habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, poaching, and prey depletion. Conservation work focuses on preserving the lion’s natural habitat, mostly in Africa and India. It also includes monitoring and researching. Another aspect of lion conservation is promoting coexistence between humans and lions.

List of Lion Conservation Organizations

African Wildlife Foundation

Works to ensure the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever; habitat protection, anti-trafficking campaigns

ALERT – African Lion & Environmental Research Trust

To ensure viable populations of African lions are maintained as an integral part of functional ecosystems.

Born Free

The Born Free Foundation is a dynamic international wildlife charity, devoted to compassionate conservation and animal welfare. Born Free takes action worldwide to protect threatened species and stop individual animal suffering.

Carnivore Conservation Malawi

Our main objectives are to monitor, conserve and restore the balance between the wildlife of Malawi, its ecology and environment.

Desert Lion Conservation Project

Namibia desert lion research and conservation.

Endangered Animal Rescue Society

Florida-based organization that provides a permanent home for unwanted or abused animals, including cougars, lions and leopards.

Ewaso Lions

The Ewaso Lions Project promotes coexistence between people and large carnivores in northern Kenya through scientific study and community outreach.

Global Conservation

Training and equiping rangers to stop illegal logging, wildlife poaching, land clearing, and mining for both land and marine areas.

Global White Lion Protection Trust

The Global White Lion Protection Trust was established in 2002 by researcher and environmentalist, Linda Tucker, for the specific purposes of protecting the White Lions; their endemic habitat; and their cultural heritage in perpetuity.

Gujarat State Lion Conservation Society

The Gir Forest National Park and Wildlife Sanctuary is a forest and wildlife sanctuary in Gujarat, India. Our goal is to conserve the Asiatic Lion and its habitat for its long term survival there by retrieving it from the list of endangered species.

IUCN – Cat Specialist Group

Advancing the understanding and conservation of the world’s 36 wild living cat species.

"...The IUCN/SSC Cat Specialist Group brings together more than 200 of the world’s leading cat experts, including scientists, wildlife managers and conservationists from 50 countries who are dedicated to advancing the understanding and conservation of the world’s 36 wild living cat species...The Cat Specialist Group is active in many of its own initiatives as well, focusing on the development of tools for the assessment of the species’ status, for the compilation and distribution of intelligence and for supporting the work of its members..."