It inspired us to launch National Geographic's Big Cats Initiative (BCI) as an effort to save these top predators ... Hunters in Africa shoot hundreds of wild lions each year (in fact, 517 ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... just because of how many people they bite. As apex predators, they act as a crucial balancing force in ocean ...

Over the last few centuries we have shot, trapped, and skinned the predators that formerly thrived at the top of the food chain in the wild ... who live among them? National Corporate funding ...

That included former Nashville Predators forward Yakov Trenin fighting ... writer for The Athletic covering the Minnesota Wild and the National Hockey League. He spent the previous four years ...