The Importance of Good Herding

Lost livestock is one of the major triggers of conflict between Maasai pastoralists and lions, and we've observed that the number of lost livestock is on the rise in our operating area in the Amboseli-Tsavo ecosystem. Lion Guardians is committed to helping develop long-term, sustainable, and community-based solutions to help keep livestock safe and improve the relationship between communities and lions.
This video was produced as part of the Center for Collaborative Conservation’s Fellows Program at Colorado State University. Lion Guardians' lion monitoring manager Philip Briggs and Colorado State University rangeland researcher Kevin Jablonski were among the program's ninth cohort of fellows.

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Good stuff, them kids would learn allot doing more herding. Great program though. Keeping the cattle bunched also make better forage. That is the lions job get rid of animals that don't bunch up so the dense herd can make grassland out of desert!