Wealth creation strongly depends on consistency and sustainability, therefore we will be collaborating with communities within these areas working towards securing the future of the lion and in essence the future of our heritage. We identified Ewaso Lions in Samburu as an organization that has truly embraced sustainable conservations initiatives.

Since 2007, Ewaso Lions has used science, education, and local capacity building to guide and facilitate long-term carnivore conservation in northern Kenya. Their flagship community programme, Warrior Watch Programme, engages the Samburu warriors in conservation in Northern Kenya through various community and research activities. They aim to strengthen and scale up our research activities by employing efficient and effective methods in our lion and wildlife monitoring across our study area.

In November 2017, ICEA LION supported Ewaso Lions with Kshs. 0.9 Million to facilitate their various lion monitoring programmes. ICEA LION further invested Kshs. 3.8 Million to develop a captivating and engaging film to showcase Ewaso Lions efforts whilst starting the movement amongst Kenyans to #JoinTheMovement with regards to lion conservation. The film has had tremendous success on our social media platforms namely Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. There were over 100,000 views on Facebook and over 100,000 on YouTube.

The film can be viewed on the ICEA LION website www.icealion.com/corporate-downloads. We will continue to engage them and like-minded organizations to reduce human-wildlife conflict.