Due to popular demand we’re excited to give you the unique opportunity of sponsoring a lion! Sponsor a lion for yourself or on behalf of someone. If you’re finding it hard buying a special gift for the person who has everything, want your gift to make a real difference in conservation, or if you’ve simply…
Season’s Greetings!
The Lion Guardians would like to say a very big THANK YOU and SEASON’S GREETINGS to all! It has once again been a very busy but extremely successful year! NO LIONS KILLED in the areas where the Lion Guardians work! We are extremely grateful to the communities of Mbirikani, Eselenkei and Oglulului, for working with…
Eric is in Tanzania!
The Lion Guardians program has been extremely successful at preventing lion deaths, and we have received many requests from other countries to tell them more about it. This month, the Lion Guardians Blog will be on a brief hiatus while Eric is investigating the plausibility of expanding the Lion Guardians program to Tanzania. We can’t…
The KLCP lion tracking website is up and running!
We are happy to announce that the KLCP lion tracking website is up and running! www.abycats.com/klplionmap/index.html We currently monitor 4 lions (1 male -Sikiria and 3 females – Birdie, Selenkay & Nosioki) with GPS collars on the website. Thanks to a generous donation from Original Godal Productions, KLCP & MPT are now able to closely…
Kapande gets a sponsor!
We would like to say a big thank you to blog reader and supporter Kate who is now sponsoring Lion Guardian Kapande from Mbirikani Group Ranch. Kapande has been working for the Lion Guardians project since 2007 and has been a great asset to the project over the years. When he was first hired his…
Lion Guardian Games!
As you may remember, we were planning to hold the Lion Guardian Games at the very end of last year, but we had to postpone them for a number of reasons – firstly due to major floods, which meant that the Guardians could not attend, but also because the depletion of herbivores and the presence…
How to donate to the Lion Guardians and where your money goes
I’d like to remind all our blog readers how they can help lion conservation by making donations to the Lion Guardians project on this blog. Every single donation made through the Lion Guardians blog goes towards the project. A lot of the funds raised go towards the project’s daily running costs, such as paying the…
Lion Guardian Games update
Hello everyone, especially those of you who made donations towards the Lion Guardian Games, which were due to be held between Christmas and New Year. Unfortunately the lack of herbivores and presence of weak cows returning after the drought meant that there was a sudden increase in attacks on livestock by carnivores, and even more…
Become a fan of the Lion Guardians!
If you are a member of Facebook you may have already joined the Lion Guardians Cause – if not click here to join! Now the Lion Guardians have a Facebook Page too, where you can become a Fan of the Lion Guardians, keep up to date with all their goings on via Facebook, and spread…
Lion Guardians busy stopping lion hunts
The Lion Guardian Games that were scheduled to be held between 27th and 29th December have unfortunately had to be postponed to a later date. The current heavy rainfall that is pounding the Amboseli ecosystem has made some areas no-go zones and has completely blocked access to many places. This is a great blessing for…