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Welcome to MRC discovery day

Welcome to MRC discovery day. Your presenter is Steven Ekwanga P.o box 555 Nanyuki Email. Sekwang@gmail.com Cell phone 0202 693- 709. Lions are disappearing rapidly Parks are not enough solution. 10,000 Years Ago. Today. Approx. 30,000 lions >50% are in Tanzania. Good planning

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Welcome to MRC discovery day

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  1. Welcome to MRC discovery day Yourpresenter is Steven Ekwanga P.o box 555 Nanyuki Email. Sekwang@gmail.com Cell phone 0202 693- 709

  2. Lions are disappearing rapidly Parks are not enough solution

  3. 10,000 Years Ago

  4. Today

  5. Approx. 30,000 lions >50% are in Tanzania • Good planning • Extensive Wilderness • Few People • Tourism and Hunting

  6. Kenya: fewer than 2000 lions • Mostly small parks with no buffers • Extensive bushmeat poaching and AK-47’s • Poison • Tourism but no hunting

  7. LAIKIPIA PREDATOR PROJECT 1997- The Laikipia Predator Project (LPP) is working with the KWS , Ranchers and Communities in Laikipia to develop practical measures which encourage coexistence between people, livestock and predators.

  8. For 15 years: Restored Lions population (-100 to 250) i.e. 6-7/100sqk Recognized has number 3rd lion strong hold in the Country.

  9. LPP Goal • To devise lion conservation strategies • To protect livestock from predators • To ensure that local people gain significanteconomic value from lions and other wildlife, to offset the cost of living with them.

  10. Reduced livestock depredation from 50%-5% or even to 0%

  11. Do Lions Benefit Laikipia People? 15-20MUS$ Laikipia's tourism employs approximately 1300 people, creating approximately 196m Kenya Shillings in wage earnings per year. Each employee has an average of 5 dependents meaning that through employment about 6500 people are directly dependent on tourism.

  12. Lions diets study related to decline in Gravy Zebra and other species of interest

  13. Thank You All Weldon Stevo!

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