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The Warrior Women Fighting to Save Endangered Lions in Kenya By Hannah McNeish Many Samburu women in Kenya’s north had come to fear lions, but now they’re taking up the conservation cause – and
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In 2010, one Samburu warrior, Jeneria Lekilelei, founded Warrior Watch to encourage Samburu men to conserve lions. Since then, the local lion population has risen from 11 animals to 50 today. Warrior Watch is part of Ewaso Lions, a group fighting to ensure a future for Kenya’s lion population.

Samburu Warriors Are Safeguarding Kenya’s Lions By Kari Mutu Community-based program engages pastoralists in conservation work to reduce human-wildlife conflicts. Among the Samburu people, a
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One of our Warriors’ key roles is to monitor individual lions and inform livestock herders when they are in the vicinity, encouraging them to move their herds on to a different area. The idea being that this will help reduce the number of livestock lost to carnivores and, in turn, the potential for retaliatory attacks on lions.

Conservation works when we involve and educate the community. I believe that the major challenge for me was lack of education and not understanding the value for having wildlife.

Empowering local communities in Kenya to conserve lions December 1, 2014 The African lion is a powerful flagship species synonymous with African rangelands; yet across the continent, lions and other