OUR PROJECTS
Here at the Safina Lion Conservation Fund we concentrate all of our work towards our Conservation Projects or our Education and Awareness Projects. Our conservation work centres around our two flagship projects as shown below. Our Future Kings Project concentrates on monitoring young dispersing male lions while our Better Bomas Project works on trying to prevent incidents of predation at the homestead to try and reduce conflict between lions and communities. Please find out more about our projects by clicking the links below. We do support other work outside of these projects which can be found when clicking the links to learn more about our support for our four conservation partners.
FUTURE KINGS PROJECT
BETTER BOMAS PROJECT
Coexistence is key to long term lion survival and increasing tolerance between lions and local people is crucial. This project focusses on efforts at homestead level to try and prevent conflict before it occurs by strengthening bomas to try and reduce the chances of predation at night, keeping lions, livestock and communities safe.
We work with four conservation partners to protect and monitor lions in the wild. To find out more about them click on the button below.
We also have two educational projects seen below. We believe that educating the public about the plight of lions is incredibly important. Many people are completely unaware of their plight and without this realisation it is hard for projects to gain proper funding. We want people to realise the state of one of the World's most iconic animals. The way to do this is by spreading awareness and we believe that there is one very easy way that we can help spread this message - by working with zoos. Both of these projects work hand in hand together working through collaboration with zoos.
LEARN ABOUT LIONS
AMBASSADORS FOR THE WILD
This project sees us combine the free educational material on our website and our links with zoos all over the country. Our website currently hosts several pages of information about lion conservation, behaviour and husbandry as well as blogs of real life lion observations. We also give out free educational leaflets to our zoo partners and have carried out educational talks to zoo visitors and staff.
It has always been our intention to work with zoos, the name of our charity is from a lioness born at a UK zoo. We believe that good zoos can be brilliant places to inspire the public to take an interest in the plight of lions in the wild and that their cousins in zoos can be a very important resource to educate people of all ages. This project sees us cooperate with zoos to do just this.
