Lion Guardians

Category: Community work | Date: Aug 20 2008 | By: lionguardians

For the second time in a week lion conservation has received a major boost. Yesterday we reported that the murrans who killed a lion on Olgulului Group Ranch, neighboring ours were sentenced. Today we report that a predator consolation scheme has been launched on this same ranch, with funding from National Geographic.

The scheme means that when livestock is killed by a carnivore the owner of the livestock will receive some money in return. In order to receive this benefit the community must agree to not kill any carnivores. We have a similar scheme running on our group ranch.

The launch ceremony for the scheme was attended in large numbers by the community and the Kenya Wildlife Service warden was also present. The community agreed to welcome the new ‘baby’ as it was termed by the murran leader of the Laitayiok clan. We really hope that this will mean an end to carnivore killings there.  

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Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jun 13 2008 | By: lionguardians

Yesterday the story of our lions and the urgent need to save them was in the news, thanks to a press release from National Geographic. You can read the story on the National Geographic site, and also read about the new big cat fund that they have launched. There is also a video about the Lion Guardians on the National Geographic website, if you want to watch me and the Lion Guardians in action!

There are links to some of the different news sites that have run the story on the Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation blog. It has featured on sites like FOX news, USA Today, ABC news and MSNBC. I hope this will lead to more people visiting this blog and donating money to the Lion Guardians program.

We have noticed less traffic on the blog recently, which also means fewer donations for us! Even though it’s the summer vacation time in many parts of the world, we still need the same amount of money to keep the program running! It was great to get some more comments on the blog - I’m really glad our hard work is appreciated. Where would we be without your support? Speaking of which, thank you to Peter P E for you donation.

I will try and take my camera to take a photograph of my mother when I go home next, and will tell you all about my family in another post - I have a big family, so there is a lot to tell!

And here is another photo of the lion, which is one of Nempekai’s pride of 10, which has been around the group ranch lately, but is now back in Amboseli National Park.

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