Photo Credit: Niels Mogensen, Mara Predator Conservation Programme

SAFINA LION CONSERVATION FUND

Welcome to the official website of the Safina Lion Conservation Fund. We are a lion conservation and education charity - Registered Charity in England & Wales Number 1172709 founded in April 2017 by a group of four trustees. Please browse the website for information on the charity, educational material about lions and more information about the work that we support.

We work with our zoo and conservation partners to carry out our two main objectives below.

TO CONSERVE

We support conservation organisations working directly with lions in the wild and the people who have to coexist with them. We currently support four conservation organisations. For more information click here.

TO EDUCATE

We work with zoos to hold educational events and we also maintain educational pages on our website to allow people open access to information about lions in the wild, how they live, the threats they face and lots more.

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Our charity is named after a lioness who was born at Linton Zoo near Cambridge in 2005. Safina and her companion Zuri are the lions on our logo, pictured here with their offspring Kali and Nabulaa and trustee James. For more information on Safina and her family please click here.

Our commitment to conservation is personal. It is our aim to create a conservation legacy for this family of lions. We believe that by collaborating with good zoos we can increase our education and conservation output to much greater levels than we could without them.

IT'S ALL IN OUR NAME...

Working Together For Lions

Since April 2017 we have donated a total of £37,330 towards lion conservation efforts...

Our approach involves working with zoos, primarily smaller zoos, to raise funds which we then donate towards larger conservation projects to our conservation partners who are already established conservation organisations working throughout Kenya and Tanzania. With this money we have sponsored efforts through five different organisations. You can donate towards our conservation projects online via Just Giving linked here. 100% of all donations that we receive go towards making donations to our conservation partners to carry out vital work to protect and monitor lions in the wild.

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We have sponsored the cost of four camera traps via Lion Landscapes as part of their community camera trap programme in the Ruaha National Park.

We have sponsored the salary of a Lion Guardian for nine years. Starting with Guardians Longoi Ole Parsitau and Kuya Kipampa, we know sponsor two, Kisimir and Mitiaki.

We have sponsored three GPS collars and related veterinary fees as well as two months fuel and the cost of a new boma via Mara Predator Conservation Programme.

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We have sponsored three GPS collars and the associated data transmission fees for three years and sponsored the strengthening of 21 bomas via Kope Lion.

Latest News & Updates

You can get the latest news and updates by following our Facebook Page but for more detailed posts you can look at the newest announcements on our blog page here. Our news page aims to give all the latest updates on our conservation projects and the work that we support in the wild.

Three of our trustees visited our conservation partner the Mara Predator Conservation Programme in February 2025. To learn more about their visit click here.

An Educational GPS Collar?!

Since 2019 we have supported both KopeLion and the Mara Predator Conservation Programme (MPCP) in their efforts to deploy GPS collars onto wild lions in their study areas. Five collars in total have been sponsored including most recently the refurbishment of a collar through the MPCP which was covered in this blog post. We have had the privilege of meeting both of these teams in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Maasai Mara ecosystem to see how this pioneering piece of

Fuel Crisis Support for Saadani Lion Project

Trustees are delighted to share that we have continued our support of Monty Kalyahe of the Saadani Lion Project. In September our research grant of £1000 was sent to cover the cost of camera traps and in-the-field related expenses and materials for monitoring the lion population during his lion population survey taking place in September - December 2025. During this time Monty would also assess the viability of long term prey populations as well as engaging with local communi

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