The (probably) extinct Barbary lion used to live in the North African region that consists of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. As such, North Africa has three main geographic features, which are the following: – The Sahara desert in the south, the largest hot desert in the world. read more
Barbary, or Atlas, lions once roamed throughout the deserts and mountains of northern Africa, ranging from Morocco to Egypt, far to the north of their sub-Saharan relatives. read more
Barbary lions inhabited the range countries of the Atlas Mountains including the Barbary Coast. Jardine remarked in 1834 that at the time lions may have already been eliminated from the coastlines, marking the border to human settlements. read more