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Lions of Southeast Africa (including Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Zambia)
Lions of Southeast Africa (including Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Zambia)
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Lions of Southeast Africa (including Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique and Zambia)
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Southeast Africa or Southeastern Africa is a region that is intermediate between Eastern Africa (which partially includes Northeast Africa) and Southern Africa (which includes what was known as Southwest Africa). It comprises the countries Botswana, Burundi, Eswatini (Swaziland), Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, in the mainland, with the island-nation of Madagascar also included. All lions in this region are of the Southern subspecies (Panthera leo melanochaita), with the possible exception of those in the northern parts of Uganda and Kenya in East Africa, which are apparently where the range of the Southern subspecies overlaps with that of the Northern subspecies (Panthera leo leo), see this thread for more details.
Kafue National Park, Zambia; credit: Hunt Forever Masai Mara National Park, in the Kenyan part of the Serengeti ecoregion; credit: Robert Harding
The 2 sides of the Serengeti ecoregion in East Africa
Masai Mara National Park, Kenya Leo Li  *This image is copyright of its original author Leo Li  *This image is copyright of its original author Serengeti National Park, Tanzania Liondartois  *This image is copyright of its original author Richard Mortel  *This image is copyright of its original author
The national park of Mount Gorongosa in central Mozambique, with 2 lions in the foreground. Credit: Judy Gallagher
 *This image is copyright of its original author 
Beverly Joubert: " A lioness hauls her precious cargo across a Kenyan grassland. For lion cubs, the odds of surviving to adulthood are uncertain at best – just one in eight males are likely to make it. Attacks from other predators, abandonment by their mothers, or vicious takeovers by rival males could all land the cubs in trouble. But it’s not just natural dangers that lions must endure, human-caused threats are putting the species under increasing pressure as well. It is these risks that we can – and should – control.
We’ll be taking you to the plains of Kenya this #EarthDay for the premiere of BORN WILD: THE NEXT GENERATION coming to @natgeochannel on April 22 8/7c. Tune in! "
Lisa Antell: " He just cannot wait to be King!
Cute spotty little Kapanda Pride cubbie (disguised as a leopard cub?) with his sister, mama and auntie one pleasant evening in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia. August 2019 "
Lucien Beaumont: " Weighing up the risks of crossing a crocodile infested swamp. Busanga Plains, Kafue National Park. "
Michael Laubscher: " There is just something about the dark mood of South Luangwa."
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