Several people on a bus saw a lion north of the town of Sétif. The forest was destroyed during the French-Algerian War in 1958, so the lions might’ve disappeared around then. Barbary lions are ...

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Barbary lions originally roamed northern Africa, from Morocco to Egypt. But they were declared extinct in the wild in 1922, after centuries of over-exploitation and habitat destruction by humans. Some ...

Wreck-hunters have discovered the remains of a small 17th-century pirate ship, known as a Barbary corsair, in deep water between Spain and Morocco. The wreck is "the first Algiers corsair found in ...

Males brave many dangers to protect the young. “Some macaques are really scared of people,” says Siân Waters of Barbary Macaque Awareness & Conservation. But when she and her colleagues ...