Lion Guardians

Category: Community work, Lion Guardian reports, Meet the Lion Guardians, Meet the lions, lion research fieldwork | Date: Jan 16 2008 | By: admin

Recently, we have not been able to put up consistent posts. The reason is that we have been working extra hard out in the field, among the community to get a better understanding of the dynamics behind the death of the two lions on our ranch. We need to do this to be able to hopefully prevent similar cases in the future.

During our time traveling around the ranch, visiting with the communities, we also checked on the remaining lions. We have good news….Nemasi appears to have given birth! We saw her a few mornings ago near Olbili. She looked very fat; it seems that she is lactating, though we have yet to see the cubs so no hard evidence to support our hunch. We have also had the opportunity to talk to the Lion Guardians and get their responses to the poisoning. We shall be sharing them with you in this and future posts. Here is Koikai’s reaction:

http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=8717579

We also received news from Koikai that he is a proud new father of a baby boy! He was explaining to us that he now has double responsibility. He has to watch out over his own newborn and over Nemasi’s newborns since Sangale, the cubs’ father, is now absent.

Here is Koikai at work

Better days……Nemasi with Sangale before his death.

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