It was once a rite of passage for warriors to kill lions to prove their bravery, but now the Maasai community works to protect them. Empaps (Meshack) Sayialel, Maasai The Maasai have a long ...

Maasai youths in Kenya have come together for a sports competition, created as an alternative to the group's annual lion hunt - a traditional rite of passage. Hundreds competed in various games in ...

(AP Photo/Brian Inganga) Kenya's most identifiable community is abandoning hunting lions with spears for javelin throwing at a biannual event called the Maasai Olympics. The Maasai people ...

ritual killing of lions (notably within the Maasai tradition), and unsustainable trophy hunting for lions, chiefly by affluent Americans. The new assessments, compiled by scientists from Panthera ...

“Olorpapit”, the oldest lion at the Maasai Mara Game Reserve died on Wednesday ... The responsibility for training them to hunt is also that of the mother. Male lions will however protect ...

“We know how to kill lions,” one young Maasai warrior said in Swahili during ... People around the world have long used poisons to hunt game and kill enemies. In East Africa the Acocanthera ...

According to Maasai Sightings, this sighting occurred ... out by lion pride while his friend watches WATCH | Nomadic lions hunting a buffalo Monday, 18 December – Click here Tuesday, 19 December ...

Cattle and conservation don’t typically mix. For centuries, East African pastoralists like the Maasai trudged across the ...

The North Coast Courier has been the leader in local news for the past 30 years. Founded in 1985 by Bruce and Rose Stephenson, the North Coast Courier is the largest community newspaper in its ...

If the FWS determines that the hunt does not contribute to ... what happened earlier this month when several Maasai herdsmen poisoned a pride of lions in Kenya after the lions killed their livestock.

An early morning in Kenya's Maasai Mara game reserve - with wildebeest ... "When they pay the money, most clients, if they didn't see a lion or an elephant - the 'Big Five' - they assume they ...