Lion Guardians

Category: ways you can help | Date: Jun 02 2008 | By: lionguardians

We are very pleased that a school in the UK has been getting involved in fundraising for the Lion Guardians. The children have been reading the blog and finding out about lion conservation, Maasai people and Kenya. I think it is fantastic that children are getting interested in lion conservation and the problems that are faced by carnivores living in the wild.

They have organised a cake sake to raise funds for the Lion Guardians, and have been very busy designing posters to advertise it. Here are two of the posters, that we were sent.

Isn’t it great that people from across the world are doing their bit to help us to raise funds to the Lion Guardians!? Thank you very much for your efforts. All the Lion Guardians would like to wish you GOOD LUCK with the cake sale! We hope it goes very well! Thank you!

It would be great if you could take some photos, and we can post them on the blog for everyone to see. And anyone else who holds any events to raise funds for the Lion Guardians, however big or small, please take a photo, and we can show everyone on the blog!

We are still waiting for news on the hyena from last night. We will update you when we hear anything.

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

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Category: Community work, Meet the Lion Guardians | Date: May 28 2008 | By: lionguardians

Last week we had the pleasure to host Jessica Craig at camp, who was representing the UK division of the Panthera Foundation. She came to find about the Lion Guardians program, and how we conserve lions by employing murrans who have hunted lions in the past to work with their communities to conserve them. And we made sure she got to visit some of the Guardians, to find out how they do it from the horse’s mouth! Here she is chatting about the program with Lion Guardians Koikai, Melubo and Lenkina and Antony, as well as Melubo’s father.

We were very glad to introduce Jessica to Melubo’s father, Mepukori Ole Nakenyu, who used to hate carnivores with a passion! The local community could not believe it when the son of this man who loved to kill carnivores became involved in lion conservation. But Melubo’s father himself was proud to tell us that he hadn’t killed a carnivore for years, and we chatted to him about conservation over tea at his boma. Here is a short video of our day.

In exchange for tea, we agreed to give a ride to one of Melubo’s father’s wives who had a young baby that wasn’t well and needed to go to the clinic. This turned into a ride for many more people, who all seemed to need to go to the clinic too, and we left the boma with about 17 people squashed into the car! These women and their babies sat on the back seat. Everyone else was in the back with the spare tyre and tools!

Tags: fundraising, Kenya, lion conservation, Lion Guardians, Maasai, masai, panthera

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