2010 Lion Guardians Games Celebrating our Maasai Lion Conservation Heroes
Lion Guardians Our mission is to promote sustainable coexistence between people and lions using cultural values, community participation and science. The Lion Guardians program was started in 2006. The impetus to create this project was in response to the slaughtering since 2001 of over 200 lions in the AmboseliTsavo Ecosystem. Today, retaliatory and traditional spearing by Maasai warriors (murrans) is the greatest threat to survival of lions in Maasailand. The Lion Guardians program attempts to redu
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