Maasai pastoralists kill lions in retaliation for depredation of livestock by lions

EM Ontiri, M Odino, A Kasanga, P Kahumbu… - People and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… and the loss of livestock will vary among pastoralist groups and … lion-killing and livestock
depredation among three geographical clusters of Maasai people in Kenya: Nairobi, Maasai

Ritual vs. retaliatory killing of African lions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania

D Ikanda, C Packer - Endangered Species Research, 2008 - int-res.com
… evidence of 2 separate contexts for lion killing in the NCA. Figs. 4 & 5 suggest … Maasai
primarily kill lions in retaliation for livestock depredation throughout most parts of the pastoralist

Understanding the dynamics of lion attacks on humans and livestock in southern Maasailand, Kenya

G Western, DW Macdonald, AJ Loveridge, AJ Dickman… - Oryx, 2021 - cambridge.org
… Here we investigate lion depredation within two Maasai … and severity of lion attacks on
pastoralists and their livestock and … in which circumstances lion depredation triggers retaliation by …

[PDF][PDF] Lion and livestock conflict in the Amboseli region of Kenya

GS Fleury - 2014 - core.ac.uk
Maasai cultural perceptions of lions well as well as livestockKilling predators in retaliation
for depredations only works in … 1800s that weakened Maasai pastoralist communities and left …

THE SOCIAL ECONOMIC COST OF LION DEPREDATION ON LIVESTOCK IN THE AMBOSELI ECOSYSTEM, KENYA

MW MURIUKI - 2013 - 41.89.164.27
… The African lion population in the Amboseli ecosystem of … to retaliatory killing by the Maasai
due to livestock predation. … more prevalent in Maasai land and other pastoralist areas with …

Evaluation of a compensation scheme to bring about pastoralist tolerance of lions

SD Maclennan, RJ Groom, DW Macdonald… - Biological …, 2009 - Elsevier
… as most Maasai do not … retaliatory lion-killing after depredation incidents. A secondary
objective is to foster an improvement in livestock husbandry, so as to minimize carnivore-livestock

The cost of livestock lost to lions and other wildlife species in the Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

MW Muriuki, H Ipara, JW Kiringe - European journal of wildlife research, 2017 - Springer
… , lions suffer the most from retaliatory killing by the Maasai … In the present study, high
depredations by hyenas could be … incentive for pastoralists to forego retaliatory killing of lions after …

Retaliatory killing negatively affects African lion (Panthera leo) male coalitions in the Tarangire-Manyara Ecosystem, Tanzania

N Felix, BM Kissui, L Munishi, AC Treydte - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… These conflicts are usually a result of livestock depredation, … pastoralists perceived lions
as a greater threat than agro-… Also, we hypothesized that young men ie, Maasai warriors had …

Financial compensation for damage to livestock by lions Panthera leo on community rangelands in Kenya

H Bauer, L Müller, D Van Der Goes, C Sillero-Zubiri - Oryx, 2017 - cambridge.org
… to decrease the killing of lions Panthera leo by Maasai on com… We monitored all incidents
of depredation, killing of lions, and … Pastoralists are organized in so-called bomas, settlements …

[PDF][PDF] Lions, conflict and conservation

L Frank, G Hemson, H Kushnir, C Packer… - … and conservation of …, 2008 - leofoundation.org
… Our opinion is that retaliatory and pre-emptive killing of lionsretaliation for livestock
depredation appears to be decimating … traditional Masai pastoralists with their large herds of cattle. …