We’re delighted to announce that through KopeLion has received a grant from @insidenatgeo, through Ingela Jansson, our Co-founder, and Nat Geo Explorer. With a goal to support the long term viability of lions across the Greater Serengeti ecosystem, its focus will be on expanding our work with the addition of an Ilchokuti zone, building our Ilchokutis’ skills to further assist in their communities with animal health, wound treatment, basic first aid, and to support the monitoring of lions recovering and settling their former habitats in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
We’re also grateful for the generous support over the last few months from the Protection of at Risk Wildlife (PAW) Foundation, to Maliasili Initiatives, and to Puneet and his family, and to NABU for a renewed three-year grant specifically supporting lion monitoring and conflict mitigation.

We’re excited about a new initiative with Milkywire – ‘a new way to discover, connect and donate to grassroots organisations saving the planet’ – where Ololotu will be the face of KopeLion.
And, we are hugely thankful to all the many, many people (Rex Rogers, Rosemary Osmond, Dale Anderson, Daniela Sieff, Christa Sprinkle, Lara Behr to name but a few…) who big-heartedly support us in all sorts of different ways.

We couldn’t do it without you! Thank you!

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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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