National Geographic Explorer and photographer Steve Winter is no stranger to photographing big cats. In India’s Gir Wildlife ...

Decades after nearly going extinct, the world’s only existing population of Asiatic lions is overrunning a small reserve in western India. Now what? Inside Gir National Park, a wildlife preserve ...

India’s Asiatic lions have rebounded from near extinction, but their concentration in and around Gujarat creates new ...

Lions are one of the world’s most iconic species but are threatened with extinction. Developing effective range-wide conservation plans are crucial but hampered by the relative lack of knowledge on ...

For three hours, wildlife biologist and filmmaker Denise Peterson sat beside a busy Utah trail watching a young female mountain lion. During that entire time, joggers passed by repeatedly, completely ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. When people think of lions, the image that comes to mind is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here, we take you behind the scenes to look at how our photographer got the shot. This interview has been edited for length and ...

In our June 2026 issue, National Geographic reported on the lions found in the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary in Gujarat, India. This population of Asiatic lions was once near extinction, but as a result of ...