2010 Lion Guardian™ Games

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2We6I-CEVc




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Living With Lions™ initiated the Lion Guardians™ program in 2006. The impetus to create this project was in response to the slaughtering of over 200 lions in the Amboseli-Tsavo Ecosystem since 2001.

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 reduce pressure on lions by employing their greatest enemy, the Maasai warrior, to conserve rather than kill.

This summer in Kenya's Maasailand we held the long-awaited Lion Guardians Games -- a tournament in which our "Lion Guardians" competed in three events -- stick and spear throwing and football. The games were held to introduce the three teams of Lions Guardians from the three separate ranches on which we work to each other and to thank the Lion Guardians for all their hard work over the past year.

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