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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