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Thanks to the NCA Authority for providing us with their ‘wooden house’ and to Ndutu Lodge for their support in refurbishment, KopeLion has a new office and staff bedrooms. Working all together in this new and improved space is making a difference and it’s a perfect hub for training and planning.

In these last three months we seem to have accomplished a lot of learning: the whole management team spent three days on a Situational Leadership course, we trained two new Ilchokuti and six Liaison Officers from the villages working with our Conservation Incentive Payments scheme, Lilian passed her driving test, Ingela and Ololotu had SMART and ODK lessons from Daudi at Honeyguide, Retilda trained in stores management with Asilia and Roimen enrolled to complete his Form 4 certificate to enable him to study further.

We’ve also used our new facilities to host learning trips to understand more about human-lion conflict and co-existence in Ngorongoro for Tanzania Wildlife Authority (TAWA), KDU and Oikos East Africa, as well as for Honeyguide and Makame Wildlife Management Area. We also worked together with The Range Wide Cheetah and Wild Dog Programme to conduct 4 x Human and Wildlife Conflict idea exchange sessions, between Community Leaders, NCA Authority Rangers, and our Ilchokuti, to find ways to improve herding practices and livestock enclosures. African People and Wildlife made a great effort at short notice and joined us for a couple of days with additional insights.

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KopeLion Inc. (short for Korongoro People’s Lion Initiative) is a non-profit NGO registered in USA

2 days ago

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Tanzania is one of the most important countries for the lion’s long-term survival. It has about one-third of the world’s lions, and 3/5 of the remaining large extensive populations (of >2,000 lions each). #Ngorongoro#Communityconservation#Ngorongorocrater#Ngorongoroconservationarea#Lionconservation#Humanwildlifecoexistence#Ngorongorodistrict#Corridoroftolerance ... See MoreSee Less
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5 days ago

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An increase in tolerance within pastoralist communities has enabled lions to disperse between the hubs of the Crater and Ndutu. The engagement of the Ngorongoro people to create a ‘corridor of tolerance’ between the crater and the Serengeti, has yielded considerable success and we have seen an average increase of 8% per year in lion observations, since 2017, in areas occupied by people.📸 @breathenaturemia #Ngorongoro#Communityconservation#ngorongorocrater #Ngorongoroconservationarea#Lionconservation#Humanwildlifecoexistence#Ngorongorodistrict#CorridoroftoleranceIUCN Save Our Species @iucnsos EU_Partnership Lion Recovery Fund ... See MoreSee Less
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1 week ago

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Our new expansion into Kakesio Ward, increasing lion connectivity through a new corridor of tolerance, is proving useful. Here Julius reports immaculately his lion observations through the month of April. On the file, you can see the name of the lion, the gender, the GPS coordinates and whether the lion was spotted/identified thanks to telemetry, tracks found, hair left behind or visually.#Ngorongoro#Communityconservation#Ngorongorcrater#Ngorongoroconservationarea#Lionconservation#Humanwildlifecoexistence#Ngorongoro@iucnsos #CorridoroftoleranceIUCN Save Our Species @iucnsos ... See MoreSee Less
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