{"id":179302,"date":"2025-09-27T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179302"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T12:30:58","slug":"world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=179302","title":{"rendered":"World lion day: Why is the king of the savanna declining?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats, is today a vulnerable species with decreasing populations in extremely fragmented habitats. It once ranged widely throughout Africa and Eurasia; today, it\u2019s restricted to parts of sub-Saharan Africa and one small area in western India&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/08\/world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lion, with its majestic mane and the loudest growl of all the big cats,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":179303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/179302-world-lion-day-why-is-the-king-of-the-savanna-declining-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}