Why Are Lions Important To The Ecosystem

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I believe that Lions are very important for its ecosystem. Lions account for around 85 percent of the predation on the Serengeti’s. Lions have special importance as the only predators on the savanna capable of killing Africa’s largest herbivores, such as elephants and giraffes. Lions prey primarily on herd animals, the attack the weakest animal, since most animals protect their young so they are mostly either old or sick. Since they mostly kill the ones that are either old or sick they lower the other animals of getting diseases so they keep the population balance between the animals.




Humans are the main reason why Lions are endangered because we kill them for sport or for trophies. Also as human development increases more wild savanna …show more content…

The lions habitat has been destroyed over the years because of humans destroying their land for farming and livestock. So their habitat is destroyed for our needs, but we need to remember that they were here before us and think were to grow our crops and livestock. When the lions hunt they use their habitat to hide in the high grass to kill their prey and since we are destroying it they can’t kill their prey so they are dying and now some can’t kill their prey they are dying and now there might be some increase of other animals dying because of disease. If we proceed to destroy their habitat they won’t have anymore of their land.



So Lions will go extinct if we don’t do anything to save them and their habitat. Also the entire ecosystem will crash without lions. Other animals will decrease in numbers because disease will increase without the lions to kill the ones that have the disease. Now the numbers in lions have decreased over the last three decades. So we need to protect the lions because they have been here longer than us and we need to not destroy their habitat because without lions everything in their area will be affected by

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