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• Fashion with a Cause

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 487
  Based in The Rift Valley Kenya, East Africa, The Leakey Collection founders Katy and Philip Leakey, combine their talents in interior design and the arts with their love of nature to develop stunning handcrafted products for an international market. Using natural elements such as fallen wood, grass and porcelain, ...
  2 days ago

• Last chance to get your Lion Guardians Christmas Cards!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  If you would like to purchase any Lion Guardians Christmas cards (and at the same time help support our lion conservation work), now is the time! In order that you get them in plenty of time to send to your friends, please purchase the cards before December 1st. We are finding that it takes about a week /10 days for ...
  2 days ago

• Introducing another new Guardian!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  Parkesian Ole Saitoti is our Lion Guardian representing the Meshenani zone. This is an area highly frequented by lions which wander outside protected Amboseli National Park and into potential conflict with the Maasai living in this area. It comprises a hilly area of thick bush  - a great place for lions to hang out! ...
  3 days ago

• Modern day lion hunt

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  ‘Olamayio’ is a traditional Maasai lion hunting party, usually comprising several warriors (morans) of the same age-set. Ideally, morans will go out to test their bravery, which will subsequently provide prestige and status for the victorious moran within his community. It will also very much help to ‘draw in ...
  6 days ago

• A rare ostrich meeting!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  After only a little rain, the devastating drought is still ravaging the greater Amboseli ecosystem. The drought is bound to completely change specialized pastoralism, the core of the Maasai’s cultural identity. It is like a wind that blows nobody good. Wildlife of all kinds despite their shapes and sizes are also ...
  1 week ago

• Our new Lion Guardians on Olgulului

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  As we reported last week, we have now started up the Lion Guardians program on Olgulului Group Ranch too! Now we thought we should introduce you to some of the new guys who have started working there.. and our first new Guardian to be introduced is called Sumulei Ole Munke. Sumulei represents the “Risa” ...
  1 week ago

• More donations for the Games!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  Thank you Sauwah, Brenton and Anna! You have now raised our Lion Guardian Games total to $250! Only $750 more to go! The Lion Guardians are all talking about who will win which event, and which ranch has the better singers, jumpers and stick throwers! All the Guardians from each ranch are deciding on the top two ...
  1 week ago

• Owen and Sheri kick off the Lion Guardian Games campaign!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  We are delighted that Owen and Sheri Hogle have donated $100, and started the climb up our Lion Guardian Games thermometer! Thank you so much! Let’s try and spread the word about the first ever Lion Guardians Games and Awards, and get to the top as soon as we can! The Games will involve competitions in all ...
  1 week ago

• Lion Guardian Games and Awards

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  As you may know we now have Lion Guardians monitoring and conserving lions on three Group Ranches across the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem – Mbirikani (where the project started), and now Eselenkei and Olgulului Group Ranches. These ranches combined are about 4000km², and hold key habitats for the last remaining lions ...
  2 weeks ago

• MAASAI STREET STYLE

  
  Gypset — Authority: 110
  I really had to rub my eyes when I saw three Maasai warriors strutting down Sixth Avenue in Manhattan the other day with their spears, home made sandals and more jewelry wrapped around their long, slender limbs than a drag queen. Talk about brow raising street style. Turns out it was Samson, Parashi, and Sunte who ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Lion Guardians expansion continues!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  We are very pleased to announce that the Lion Guardians project has now officially expanded into Olgulului Group Ranch! The Group Ranch which surrounds the world famous Amboseli National Park is a huge area of communal land which also borders Eselenkei Group Ranch to the North, and Mbirikani to the East, where we ...
  2 weeks ago

• Lion poisoning

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  We were all shocked and saddened to read that a child recently died in Kenya from eating Furadan. We, along with Wildlife Direct and many many others have been trying to raise awareness about the poisonous affects of Furadan for a long time now. Visit the Baraza blog to watch their video about the poisoning of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thank you to our fantastic donors!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  The Lion Guardians would like to thank each and every one of you that has donated on our blog recently. We are sending out our deepest gratitude to: Aleta W Amy B Anne C Black C Brenton H Bruce L Cindy C Delineations (Kate A!) Hashi H Jacqueline H Jessica F John R Joyce N Katherine J Lois C Michael L Pirjo I Richard ...
  2 weeks ago

• New lions kill giraffe

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  Lion Guardian Olubi reported that lions had killed a giraffe in his area of work, but he had not found a signal when using radio telemetry to track for collared lions. We went over to investigate, and Olubi and Mokoi guided us to the carcass. The Lion Guardians could easily tell it been killed by a lion – they ...
  2 weeks ago

• NYC Marathon Attracts Celebrities For Charity

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 532
  Written by Regina Walton The NYC Marathon took place last Sunday, and what a race! The NYC Marathon is one of the most difficult marathon courses around. However, that didn’t stop a long list of celebrities, athletes and even royalty from training and putting on their running shoes to benefit a long list ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mice in the oven!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  Last night the Lion Camp received yet another visit from some naughty elephants, though they didn’t cause too much destruction this time, only knocking over the water container. We are also still getting regular nightly visits from our friend the genet.. ..and this morning the lion camp had even more animal ...
  3 weeks ago

• Christmas cards - important info!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  If you have bought any Lion Guardians Christmas cards, please note: You MUST make a written order for the cards by posting a comment on the blog after you have donated. This is the only way that we can get access to your email address, and find out the postal address you would like the cards to be sent to. For ...
  3 weeks ago

• Life with the lions

  
  Africa Blog — Authority: 489
                      Kenya’s Maasai warriors are known for being fearless lion killers but times have changed and the country’s lion’s population is in danger of being wiped out. Now the Maasai in southern Kenya are taking part in an initiative to preserve the big cats. For thousands of years ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lion vs warthog mashup

  
  Baraza — Authority: 481
  I am amazed! Someone took our blog post and podcast about lion vs warthog in the Masai Mara and mashed it up to produce this great Youtube video! Thank you Tigersandme! And all of you out there please feel free to do the same - send us links to your mashups!
  3 weeks ago

• Lion Guardians Christmas Cards!

  
  Lion Guardians — Authority: 418
  I would once again like to remind all our readers that you can buy lovely Lion Guardians Christmas cards right here on the blog! All the profits go to the Lion Guardians, so please, wherever you are in the world, buy as many as you can and tell all your friends about them too! Maybe you could even buy a stock, and ...
  3 weeks ago

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