A lion seen in the Atlas Mountains, during a flight on the Casablanca-Dakar air route. The photograph taken by Marcelin Flandrin in 1925 is the last visual record of a wild ‘Barbary’ lion of North Africa
I was just linked to this image and oh man, the feels. The last (probably) of its kind, almost as if it's walking into the ocean, but also staring out towards the ocean... ah well you can imagine your own thoughts at this point.
Some quick google research: The Barbary Lions populated the Barbary Coastal regions of Maghreb from the Atlas Mountains to Egypt and was pretty much decimated by the introduction of firearms and bounties for shooting lions in that region.
So yeah, well done once again humans. There's a few left in some zoos but mostly no.
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