The Conservation Value

Having collars on lions helps us understanding their movements, their predation patterns and also their whereabouts. All these help to prevent people from carrying out illegal killing of lions. Having more personnel in the field (carrying out monitoring) tends to facilitate communication between community members and conservationists, enabling the rapid identification of problem animals, or problem areas.

The simple act of employing people in direct proportion to the number of lions seems to engender a kind of sense of ownership or pride in the lions that we have left. In Kuku Group Ranch the employment of 8 simba scouts has probably been the key to an overwhelming change of attitude towards lions, as evidenced by public statements by people that they will no longer kill lions.