Ultimate Safaris donates vehicle to Lion Ranger program

Ultimate
Safaris’ Conservation Travel Foundation and its local partners have donated a Toyota
Land Cruiser 4.2 Single Cab to the value of N$ 700 000, to the Lion Ranger
Project’s Eastern Kunene Rapid Response team. This donation will ensure the
team is able to continue ensuring the survival of Namibia’s unique
desert-adapted lions, while at the same time limiting human-wildlife conflict.
The Lion
Ranger program’s goal is the long-term sustainable management of human-lion
conflict by communities in northwest Namibia. This is achieved through
satellite-tracking and the employment of an innovative early-warning system
that was developed in Namibia. With this system, early-warning system towers
are erected at farms within known human-lion conflict areas. When a collared
lion comes close to a tower, farmers and the Lion Rangers are provided with SMS
alerts and a series of lights and sirens alerts the farmer to the lions
presence.
The nearby Lion
Rangers will drive to the area of potential conflict to assist the farmers. If
the lion has migrated from a Protected Area such as Etosha National Park, then
the Lion Rangers will try to encourage it to return to safety. In the case of
lion living in the Conservancy, the Lion Rangers will remain in the area until
the lion has moved on and the conflict has been resolved.
The key to
the success of the Lion Ranger program is that it unifies communal,
governmental, and non-governmental stakeholders. It is also community-driven
and the Rangers themselves are conservancy-employed game guards who receive
special training and equipment to lead efforts in combating conflict between
humans and lions on communal land.
The Lion
Rangers believe that lions and rural residents can thrive alongside one
another.

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