It's not just Cecil -- lions are vanishing all over West Africa

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Lions, that symbol of Africa’s wild beauty, power and freedom, no longer roam in Mali or in Ivory Coast or Ghana or war-shattered eastern Congo. Or most of the rest of West Africa. Three years of searching and no sight of a lion for Philipp Henschel, lion survey coordinator for the New York-based Panthera conservation group. Then he saw it, his first lion in West Africa. And in of all places, Nigeria. “It came as a big surprise because Nigeria has by far the biggest human p...