Lion Guardians

Category: Donations received | Date: Oct 31 2008 | By: lionguardians

Thank you so much for your donations over the last month. I am especially glad to see we have some new donors on the site. Thank you all for reading the blog and supporting our work. Here is a photo of the plains near to our camp, where the Lion Guardians located one of our collared lions Nemasi recently.

We couldn’t continue to help the lions and the communities here without you, so please carry on reading our news, tell your friends about the Lion Guardians and donate to us if you can. Here is Nemasi, with one of her three cubs.

Our thanks go out to Black C, Loki Q, Anna M, Tanya D, Pirjo I, Lisa R, Hashi H, Jia L, Deb O, Susan A, Eric B, Evan B, Micheal B, Louis B, Richard G and Richard V, who have all made donations to us in October.

Share This

Tags: cubs, donations, Kenya, lion, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, lions, Maasai, masai

One response so far

Category: Donations received, Lion Guardians work | Date: Aug 14 2008 | By: lionguardians

Lion Guardian Koikai has reported two lions close to Olbili, where he lives and works. When he passed on this information to the office, he said he thought they were a new pride. Our collared male Lentim is at Olosira, a hill close to Olbili, but Koikai think the ones he came across are probably new lions. Wouldn’t it be great if new lions like this had moved into the area?

I will deliver a receiver to Koikai soon so that he can track these lions, and find out if they are collared, or new individuals as he suspects. The good news is they have not caused any trouble to livestock owners. We really hope this continues, but as ever Koikai and the other Lion Guardians will be ready to try to dissolve any conflict that may arise between livestock owners and carnivores.

It would be great if we had the funds to buy each of our Guardians a receiver. This would make the program much more efficient as they would know for certain which lions they were tracking. As always, your donations are really appreciated, and are vital in order for us to continue the program.

Thank you to everyone who has made donations recently - Edward M, Dave B, Black C, Wanda H, Peter P, Caroline T, and Loki Q. We would not be able to continue our work without your support.

Share This

Tags: collar, conflict, donations, Kenya, lion, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, Livestock, Maasai, masai

5 responses so far

Category: Donations received | Date: Jul 27 2008 | By: lionguardians

The Lion Guardians would like to thank Africa Alive! an African focused visitor attraction in the UK for making a donation of £2300 to the program. They chose lion conservation as the focus of their fundraising efforts this year, which is great news for the lions here, and the Lion Guardians too.

We are very grateful for this donation, which will be extremely useful for us, particularly at this time when we are trying to find enough funds to continue the program on this ranch, before thinking of expanding to other areas, to continue the good work of the Lion Guardians in the wider area of unprotected Maasailand.

Asante sana from all the Lion Guardians!

Share This

Tags: africa alive, donations, Kenya, lion, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, Maasai, masai

3 responses so far

Category: Donations received | Date: Jun 09 2008 | By: lionguardians

We are delighted to say that the cake sale organised by the children of Westbury House School in the UK was extremely successful and raised £211 (about US$400) for the Lion Guardians! We are all really grateful for their hard work and fundraising.

Your donation will make a big difference! It will go towards helping the Lion Guardians with their work-making sure that wild carnivores don’t come into conflict with the local people who graze their livestock in the same areas as them.

With this money we will be able to do things like pay the wages of the Lion Guardians, buy equipment that they need, (like aerials so more of the Lion Guardians can track lions), and many other things. It is the equivalent of sponsoring 5 Lion Guardians for a whole month (or one of them for 5 months)!

The more the Lion Guardians can help the community to live with lions, the more chance we have of saving them from being killed. So it not only helps the lions, but the community that live here too.

We have even been sent some photos of the wonderful cakes that were made and sold to raise funds for us. Look at this great cake that says Help Lions!

Share This

Tags: donations, Kenya, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, Maasai, masai

6 responses so far

Category: Donations received | Date: Jun 07 2008 | By: lionguardians

We would like thank you for your donations over the last few weeks. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Jessica F, Dana J, Richard V (who is sponsoring Lion Guardian Ritei), Hashi H and Lisa R. Special thanks also to Linda D for her generous donation of $900. Thank you so much.

We have also just had news that the cake sale held by the children of Westbury House School in the UK  raised over $400! We will be writing a post all about the sale in the next few days. Thank you! Here are Lion Guardians Mokoi and Olubi.

All your donations will help the Lion Guardians in many different ways -paying their wages, buying and maintaining the equipment they use, paying for my motorbike fuel, and many other things that we need here to run this program. Here are some of the Lion Guardians teaching a new volunteer how to use radio tracking equipment.

Share This

Tags: donations, Kenya, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, Maasai, masai

One response so far