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Protecting Lions: A new lifestyle

Lions are carnivorous mammals that come from the family Felidae, and even if a Lion is a natural enemy of the human race, from our perspective, they have always been beautiful and majestic but, unfortunately, the community of these exposed animals has dramatically diminished in the past few decades. For “The Maasai” culture, from Kenya, Lions are now vulnerable mammals that have to be protected.

For thousands of years, this tribe used to kill this animals by protecting their own food and resources, and if a young warrior wanted to be recognized he had to kill a Lion as a part of a ritual making evident his capacity to protect the community. Nevertheless, things have changed, and the Maasai are part of a new East African system to defend and protect lions, known as the Lion Guardians.

This Lion Guardians, have to follow a process where they must learn how to deal with situations such as: conflicts between humans and lions, how to manage data, how to speak in public, etc., to avoid the areas where there are lions, they usually check over the lions and other carnivores and informing that to the cattle herders. They also aid by improving the livestock enclosed space and educating people about wildlife.

Concluding, in order to guard the environment and its species, the mankind have to acquire a position just like the guardians, which are teaching us that even if they have a lot of traditions they decided to protect their lives by protecting lion's life too. 

Karen Calderon.