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The IUCN has released the first Green Status Assessment for Lions in Africa and India.

International | Dated: 29 Mar 2025

In March 2025, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), based in Gland (Switzerland), released its first Green Status Assessment for the Lion (scientific name: Panthera leo). The report labeled the lion as 'largely depleted,' while it continues to be listed as 'Vulnerable' on the IUCN Red List.

🎯 Key Highlights:

  • - The latest IUCN assessment showed that human activities are preventing lions from being fully ecologically functional across large areas. Lions are also now extinct in North Africa and South-west Asia.

💡 Other Important Facts:

  • (i) The IUCN first introduced the 'green status' in a paper published in the journal Conservation Biology in July 2021. The green status was developed to give a full conservation picture of a species.
  • (ii) The new assessment method has 9 recovery categories: fully recovered, slightly depleted, moderately depleted, largely depleted, critically depleted, extinct in the wild, and indeterminate.

📚 Test Your Knowledge:

The IUCN has recently assessed lions in India and which continent under its first Green Status Assessment?

Correct Answer: Africa

🚀 Quick Recap:

About the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

  • Director-General (DG): Dr. Grethel Aguilar
  • Headquarters: Gland, Switzerland