Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project

Category: General, Lion-watching | Date: Jul 10 2008 | By: Seamus

Two days ago I was called to the scene of a donkey death. The hapless ex-equid was outside its owner’s boma that fateful night, and was found dead the next morning. There were lion and hyaena tracks in the area, and very little remained of the carcass. I spent a while talking to a group of old men who complained that lions were “disturbing them very much these days”, and seemed angry. Ndelie’s radio signal sounded as if he might be a few kilometres away, to the south-east. I took some photographs and a GPS point.

If you want to make up your own mind as to whether Ndelie the lion was the culprit or not, go to his online tracking site. Then activate the “photo markers” and the “boma markers” using the checkboxes in the sidebar, and click “play” to see where he’s been. If you click on the photo point itself it will show you a few images taken at that exact spot.

In case that’s not entirely clear, click here then look for the checkboxes as they are shown in the screen-grab below

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