More areas demand Lion Guardians!
Category: Community work | Date: Nov 13 2008 | By: lionguardians
On a recent trip to neighbouring ranch Olgulului, where we are planning on starting the Lion Guardians, we also made a visit to our other neighbours - Eselenkei Group Ranch. We spoke to the committee, who had heard of our success at stopping lions being killed on Mbirikani, and they were very eager to start the Lion Guardians program on their ranch too. The meeting was so fruitful that the committee was even ready to donate some money to help us start a new camp there, to encourage us to bring the program to their area! Here is Lion Guardian Olubi.
The committee are concerned by the number of lions that are still getting killed on their ranch, and they want the Guardians to come and intervene. So, we are hoping to start our work on both ranches; Eselenkei and Olgulului. Here are some of the lions we sre protecting with our work here.
It is very good news that our program has been praised in the communities, and that our neighbours want us to help them too. We are very proud of the success of our project - but our only problem now is funding! In order to start up the program on these two new ranches we will need to find a lot more money. If anyone has any fundraising ideas, please let us know!
Tags: community, Kenya, lion, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, lions, Maasai, masai
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5 Responses to “More areas demand Lion Guardians!”
Lisa, Seattle, on 13 Nov 2008
It’s good to hear your success is spreading. Y’all are doing a wonderful job. Thank you!
The photo of the lions is gorgeous.
Pirjo, on 14 Nov 2008
It would be interesting to know how much does it actually cost to have a new guardian program up and running?
sauwah, on 14 Nov 2008
i wish i knew some really wealthy folks, sadly i don’t. but it’s just wonderful that the eselenki group ranch is so enthus about the lion guardian program and its desire not to kill any more lions. that is just fabulous! and it’s great that your intend to begin the program in the olgulului ranch where too many lives of lions have been lost.
keep up the good work!
lionguardians, on 16 Nov 2008
Hi Pirjo,
It is going to cost about $50,000 US to start up a new Lion Guardians program. This includes a new base camp for training and meetings, salaries, equipment, a motorbike.. and all the other things we need to run the Lion Guardians.
A lot of money!!
Pauline, on 16 Nov 2008
It’s great that the Lion Guardians are so successful, but that’s a lot of money you need to raise.We could perhaps do some fundraising at our places of work…sponsored events or ask everyone for a donation for their morning coffee for one day.
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