Noongoile seen with Titan Jr hidden by long grass in close proximity to a homestead. Photo Roimen Lelya
Noongoile seen with Titan Jr hidden by long grass in close proximity to a homestead. Photo Roimen Lelya

Noongoile seen with Titan Jr hidden by long grass in close proximity to a homestead. Photo Roimen Lelya

With her cubs now juveniles, and her former mate, NguvuKazi, no more (having died in April), Noongoile has been seen in the company of two males: Laipangwa from Ndutu and Titan Jr, one of the Crater’s Lake Quintet coalition.

Despite hailing from inside the Crater, she’s decided to stay out in the community occupied highlands, preferring the Malanja depression and surrounds, often close to people and being watched and protected carefully by Kayanda, Maanda and Masanja, the three Ilchokuti in this area.

While we manage to keep conflict to a minimum, its tough to keep up with her 24/7 on foot. Last week Noongoile killed a large bull all on her own, and in a separate incident her two juvenile females, who have not gone far, killed a donkey.

Noongoile, her large cubs and cohorts, will test our 3 year trial on paying for the lions presence, and we are hoping that we can ensure that the three villages in the Ngorongoro ward will earn more from their lions than they lose through livestock depredations, and that Noongoile is valued as an asset.

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KopeLion Inc. (short for Korongoro People’s Lion Initiative) is a non-profit NGO registered in USA and in Tanzania. Our mission is to foster human-lion coexistence through participatory research and sustainable community-based conservation.

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We're seeing lions in the new 'corridor of tolerance' in Kakesio.Despite the vast and tall purple flowering Gutenbergia cordifolia, Ndolok spotted these juveniles out on the plains.Our recent follow-up household survey by Ace Africa (after working in Kakesio for 1 year) showed that 'given the importance placed on livestock for economic and practical value, it is interesting to note the value placed on land for both livestock and lion as shown in the fig. in photo 2. There has been a significant change in attitudes towards the importance of land for lions, with 23% disagreeing at the time of the baseline to only 1% disagreeing at the time of the follow up. This indicates the project has successfully educated the community about the importance of sharing land and ‘co-existence.’The Donald Slavik Family Foundation @lionrecovery Lion Recovery Fund @iucnsos IUCN Save Our Species @eu_partnerships Eu.partnerships #humanwildlifecoexistence #CommunityConservation #corridortoftolerance #Lionconservation #livingwithlions #Ngorongoro #Ngorongoroconservationarea #kopelion #Ngorongorodistrict #ngorongorolions Photo credit: Ndolok Kitiliya ... See MoreSee Less

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With 88% of our team from the Ngorongoro, we have strong ties to the community.Roimen Lelya and Ndolok Kitiliya attended the large meeting for the young Maasai warriors (Nyangulo) held in Oldonyo Orgol this week.This gave a great opportunity to discuss the high numbers of lions in the area this year, the potential conflict they bring, and how KopeLion can support them.Photo: Roimen Lelya #coexistence #humanwildlifecoexistence #communityconservation #kopelion #corridortoftolerance #CreatingConversations #livingwithlions #ngorongoroconservationarea #ngorongorodistrict #ngorongoro #lionconservation ... See MoreSee Less

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Paying for the presence of lions!The results of our 3 year Conservation Incentive Payments (CIP) trial are out.KopeLion and the TAWIRI lion research project presented them to stakeholders, including community leaders, NCAA, TANAPA, TAWIRI, MNRT, and tourism operators, in Karatu this week, and continue to present them to all the villages that participated over the next 3 days.Largely supported by The Lion Recovery Fund and others, we additionally thank the 6 villages who participated, the NCA Authority, and KopeLion staff, Ingela Jansson, Adam Pekor, William Ole Seki and Ololotu Munka who poured their hearts and time into the project.95% of respondents reported that they were satisfied with the CIP program, 97% reported that they had a more positive view of lions as a result of the CIP program, and 99% reported that they would like the CIP program to continue in their village.Human-lion coexistence was greatest where the CIP program was piloted - during the three years of the pilot, there was not a single retaliatory lion killing, hunt, or attempted hunt in the CIP villages, despite 29 such events in KopeLion’s wider area of operations'.Funding for education elevated the CIP programme, - a conservation intervention can only help promote coexistence if people are aware of the benefits they are earning from wildlife. Here, awareness of the CIP program was extremely high, with over 90% of respondents from CIP villages reporting having heard of the program or the fact that their village was earning money from the lions on their land. Anecdotally, we noticed a substantial uptick in both awareness of and enthusiasm for the program once the participating villages began using their earnings to support students to attend secondary school.#humanwildlifecoexistence #CommunityConservation #Ngorongoroconservationarea #Ngorongoro #Lionconservation #coexistence #kopelion #Ngorongorodistrict #ngorongorocrater #ngorongorolions #corridortoftolerance Photo credits: Saning'o Kimani, Jamal Fadhili@lionrecovery Lion Recovery Fund Milkywire @milkywire @pman1056 Nomad Tanzania @nomadtanzania @lincolnparkzoo Lincoln Park Zoo NABU International @nabu_international ... See MoreSee Less

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