I’m pleased to note that the Tarangire Lion project has some additional help this summer–Rae Wynn-Grant, a master’s candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Here she tells about her experiences in the field so far. My first two weeks of lion tracking with the Tarangire Lion Project team has been exciting [...]

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Some of you had asked about the number of lions in our study area, sorry for the long silence on this – I thought I would wait for the series on human-lion conflict to complete, but it appears that will carry on for a while. As we wait for results on the chemical analysis to [...]

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It’s a big week for AWF in cyberspace. The AWF Blog Team is growing with two great new bloggers: Bernard Kissui in Tanzania and Paul Muoria in Kenya. Dr. Kissui is heading up our lion conservation and research program in the Maasai Steppe Heartland. I don’t think many people realize how much trouble Africa’s lions [...]

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Two lions were speared to death in the Maasai Steppe Heartland, and two others escaped but were badly injured. Bernard Kissui, AWF’s lion researcher in this part of northern Tanzania, reports: “While on our routine lion tracking activities in the morning of 29th Dec. 2008 we found the remains of a collared female lion from [...]

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