Are African lions going extinct

Answer 1

Habitat Loss due to the population explosion in India is one of the major causes for the decline in lion population numbers.

However, the biggest cause was Hunting. Killing lions was considered a brave mans sport and many thousands of lions were killed by hunters in the past few decades before Indian independence. Lion population was in tens of thousands in the early 1900 and it came down to a few hundred by the time India got independence mainly due to extensive hunting

African lions are found in much higher numbers than their Asian cousins. They too were subject to extensive hunting but due to the recent ban in hunting, they are found in good numbers

Answer 2

They are not as of yet in actual danger of extinction, but they are listed by the World Wildlife Federation as "vulnerable" - extinction may be a possibility in a few years without conservation and preservation of their habitat.