Since the 1970s, the environment and key natural resources in most African countries have been increasingly threatened by escalating and unsustainable pressures from fast-growing populations and cities as well as expanding agricultural and industrial activities. The wet forests of Liberia, the Ivory Coast, and Sierra Leone. The pygmy hippo is about 1.2 m long and weighs about 230 kg. Hunting and loss of habitat. Savannah, open woodland and scrub country.
Lions have relatively short-legged, long, muscular bodies and large heads.
The mane on the males, which covers the head and neck, sometimes extends to the shoulders and belly. The smaller, equally muscular females are of the same tawny colour but lack manes. Hunting and loss of habitat for agriculture. Savannah, open woodland and scrub country. The most distinctive feature of elephants, the boneless, muscular trunk, is actually a greatly elongated upper lip and nose used to convey grasses, leaves, roots, fruits, and water to the mouth.