The Lion in West Africa Is Critically Endangered

• Philipp Henschel ,

  * E-mail: phenschel@panthera.org

  Affiliation Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Lauren Coad,

  Affiliations Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, School of Geography and Environmental Planning, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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• Cole Burton,

  Affiliations Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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• Beatrice Chataigner,

  Affiliation IUCN, Protected Area Program, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

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• Andrew Dunn,

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Society, Nigeria Program, Calabar, Nigeria

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• David MacDonald,

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Yohanna Saidu,

  Affiliation Nigeria National Park Service, Garki-Abuja, Nigeria

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• Luke T. B. Hunter

  Affiliation Panthera, New York, New York, United States of America

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