Will you help us light up our tree?

via GIPHY As the year winds down, we would like to take this opportunity to reach out and ask for your continued support. With a growing lion population, we are adding more and more Guardians to our community. Our goal for 2017 is to have all our Guardians salaries fully sponsored. We are 51% of…

Expansions in top gear!

We are very excited that all of the ground work for our expansions into the Ruaha and Sinya areas of Tanzania are now bearing fruits. Earlier this year, we hosted a group of Barabaig community leaders from the Ruaha ecosystem in central Tanzania on an exchange visit to Kenya. They interacted with our Lion Guardians and the…

Sponsor a lion this Christmas!

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…

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 Mara Predator Project Blog

If you like the Lion Guardian blog, you will also like our sister project Living With Lions Mara Predator Project’s blog. Please remember as you read our blogs that we need your financial support to keep doing our conservation work. Please donate by clicking here.

Map of male lion’s amazing travels!

We told you a while ago that with the help of Lion Guardians Mokoi and Kisimir we had finally found male lion Sikiria, who likes to wander far and wide. We were able to download his movements from his collar and we are pleased to tell you we now have the results mapped out for…

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…

Lions in Times Square!

For the next 62 days, Panthera who support the work of the Lion Guardians, will bring attention to the plight of wild cats by showing a video on the billboard in Times Square! For the remaining days of this campaign, any donation you make to Panthera to save wild cats will be matched dollar for…

IMPORTANT changes to how you donate to Lion Guardians

From 30th March onwards, Wildlife Direct will no longer be accepting donations on behalf of the conservation groups that blog with them, like the Lion Guardians. But don’t worry! You will still be able to get all the latest news from the lions and their Guardians right here on the Lion Guardians Wildlife Direct blog,…