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 Amboseli-Tsavo 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 reduce pressure on lions by employing their greatest enemy, the Maasai warrior, to conserve rather than kill. We operate on three group ranches in the Amboseli-Tsavo Ecosystem - Mbrikiani Group Ranch, Olgulului Group Ranch and Eselenkei Group Ranch.
In the summer of 2010 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 and to thank the Lion Guardians for all their hard work over the past year.
Learn more about the Lion Guardians Program at www.lionguardians.org
© Lion Guardians 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013

[@imboss3879]

Great athletes! These young men are very skilled. I love the lion guardians. Just love them! Lions need their help.

[@betterdeadthanred4196]

and they say there is no evolution. Look at this. the history in front of your eyes. beautiful..

[@SparklyPonyTV]

Amazing. Pure skill and ability. Thank you, Lion Guardians!

[@gaetan4437]

every time i watch video like these , i think to what the real human life should be

[@joshualittlewolfe8550]

For real.

[@Arav_90skid]

See no mobile no technology no money no stress and no worries still only have Full of happiness with god bless

[@mexicanorolla]

MAN THEY ARE SO HAPPY!! GOD BLESS THEMx

[@willywilly4695]

this is happiness, money which cant buy

[@AB-wj5oi]

Now this spear throwing makes sense. There is a target they are aiming at.they're not just throwing a javelin aimlessly. It's practical. They should even have moving targets in the Olympics.

[@koechdykes7957]

this where dignity, freedom and justice is on the air, don't find it anywhere.

[@juan58102]

More than beautiful... Fargo... N.D.

[@jonathankatapa915]

i like this....big up masai lion conservation

[@JoseFerreira-en9be]

This people Massai has very courage!

[@waleedgiddawy2791]

love u Africa

[@KanhaiyaYadav-di4vj]

Waleed Giddawy restarts

[@EarlSundance]

very cool! thanks for posting!

[@antonioKtm577]

molto bello questo video

[@lazyrabbit2412]

I think my ancestor did this things in the past.

[@yasermughal4192]

Nice one

[@mhmpibrahim5325]

سبحان الله ولي الله في خلقه شؤون

[@hco4203]

tell me what is exactly wrong with them???

[@LiquidMa]

😍😍😘 there so happy

[@imboss3879]

Soccer can teach the orphan lions some hunting skills. It teaches them to trip their prey.

[@nikolaromanos456]

They live in the grassland with the national conservation park, most of them does not go to school.

[@Lionguardians]

+Nikola Romanos Thanks Nikola - they live in community lands - so not national parks and yes most of them have never gone to school.

[@artcheezz1]

+Lionguardians Really lucky small group of people which have avoided damaging compulsory schooling with intention to dumb us down and inject false ideas about world and science. I wonder who are more humane and able to think, them or us...

[@rastafari.d.culture9734]

because they got fed up wit brainwash education of learning the golden rule and Babylon wicked system

[@husseinabdi6951]

+Rasta Fari. D. Culture how many went to school yet they gain nothing begging around

[@willylemurwa167]

+hussein abdi Mr abdi never abuse the inosent massai tribe your fullish Islamic man coz the never come to your mother house to beg okay look how stupid you're to abuse other tribes shame on you 😅😈😅😈😅😴😴😴😴💪👅👎👎👊👊😱😱😆😆😤😤

[@manoelbarbosabarbosa5033]

bonito África

[@mohammedboukhris2343]

hapy new year my friends i love you is verry '"'

[@ShinzuXTruth]

ol boy wearing a blue button up and slacks..the heck?

[@ramonorozco6652]

Money can't buy happyness

[@user-yq8jh8pv7h]

Now Roborts are watching Humans life !!!

[@angrd4074]

Esto es único

[@user-st2xd8ho1r]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@ali-sz4tt]

beutful live

[@samitadong1663]

nice

[@ninovalentino7328]

africa unite ✊

[@gregbradford2152]

I wonder what would happen if you gave them a basketball? Do you think they would hang it, and spear it?

[@ubuntumike5794]

greg bradford lol seeing how they don't have a court I think they would spear it

[@jon9274]

"I got stick, lemme smash!"

[@user-nu8ke1cz4x]

ﻻاله اﻻ الله محمدرسول الله

[@rogerpereira2592]

+‫ابوماجد عريشي‬‎ Jesus Christ! the king

[@yossiffkhalead9763]

God only one God is the king of kings

[@ndeetousidibe1158]

ابوماجد عريشي ythjy

[@yahyakandemir2175]

YOSSIFF Khalead dude what you just said Wow thats the coolest phrase i heard in a long time

[@bryonj.5526]

They bout to fck that lion up lol

[@kansasfendi5950]

Tatata

[@ddcimoet6944]

Huaaaaaa pasukane pak pendott

[@jamesandchante]

I really don't understand why some view it as inappropriate that they hunt lions. I'd want to do the same thing if I were them. By killing the lions they are providing food for their tribe and they are protecting themselves, other people, and livestock from being killed by lions. There aren't a lot of these people, so it isn't like they are killing massive amounts of lions and shipping their meat off to supermarkets all over the place as we do with cow and pig meat. Well, regardless of that, I find these people to be very impressive. They are so smart about how to live off the land, they are talented hunters, their culture is lovely, they are peaceful and friendly toward strangers, and they look beautiful.

[@ubuntumike5794]

Chante Moody time have change or rather was force to change and the lions are going extinct they need protection or we won't have anymore wild life

[@benjaminonchaga1337]

At first they used to kill Lions for sport as a right of passage at a young age like 12 years

[@anabali9426]

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[@alejandrovila622]

Lol

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[@routrout3836]

nice