Popular Press

Articles

• Guarding the Predators
• Julie Peek, Spring/Summer 2012, In Common Magazine – Nelson Institute
• The Huffington Post Publishes Op-Ed by Panthera’s President, Dr. Luke Hunter, on ‘How to Live with Lions’
  Huffington Post – 2 July 2012
• Tradition-inspired programmes to safeguard the lion
  The Standard, Kenya 1 July 2012
• Guardians of the Lions
  Africa Geographic – Vol.20 No.4 May 2012
• Lion Guardians project led by Nelson alumna wins St Andrews Prize for the Environment
  May 2, 2012, The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
• St Andrews Prize now down to the final three
  April 21, 2012
• Keystone Ladies: A few of the women fiercely defending ecosystems the world over.
  Julia Whitty, May/June 2012 Issue, Mother Jones
• Unlimited Adventure series in Vail Thursday – Leela Hazzah helping protect dwindling African Lion population
  Vail Daily, Randy Wyrick, March 9, 2011
• The Lion Saver: Leela Hazzah
  Vogue, Eve MacSweeney, November 2009
• Danger Junkies
  Marie-Claire, Abigail Pest, August 5, 2009
• Africa’s lion population is falling – An interview with lion researcher Leela Hazzah
  mongabay.com, March 25, 2008
• Southern Kenya’s Maasai tribe, lions locked in battle
  Rob Crilly, Special for USA TODAY, USA Today, August 2006

Interviews

• National Geographic Weekend – March 12, 2011
  How do you live in peace when you have lions as neighbors? It’s an important question. Lions are quickly disappearing in Africa, threatened by retaliatory and traditional spearing by Maasai warriors. Leela Hazzah directs the Lion Guardians, a program that helps herders live alongside lions.