Luke Maamai

A conservation leader with focus on engaging local people and their historical cultural values towards conservation and biodiversity of threatened species.

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@GobindsagarBha1 Hatari

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@KSAfricaHack Absolutely, conservation training motivate people to protect widlife as their own and not for the government neither NGOs #DICECON20 #COEXISTENCE #Humwild1

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People with formal education 29% are more positive towards lions conservation as compared to those without any formal education 71%. Therefore, conservation education may play a great role in supporting conservation awareness at the community level #DICECON20 #coexistence #Lion

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@BigBarbaryCat Yes generally young individuals are very positive in conservation compared to old people #DICECON20 #COEXISTENCE #Humwild1

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@domgreves Conservation solution to mitigate lion killing is to educate local people on the importance of wildlife conservation as well as offering direct benefits as a motivations from conservation to the target groups

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African lion (Panthera leo) populations are in decline throughout most of Africa, but the problem is particularly acute in Kenyan Maasailand, where local Maasai are spearing and poisoning lions at a rate which will ensure local extinction. #Lion
#Coexistence #DICECON20 #Humwild1

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@ConservationAR Yes there is a decline in traditional lion hunts since majority of young individuals are not interested in hunting lions. This is because of great work done by conservation organisations targeting lion killer's

[Luke Maamai @LMaamai]

African lion (Panthera leo) populations are in decline throughout most of Africa, but the problem is particularly acute in Kenyan Maasailand, where local Maasai are spearing and poisoning lions at a rate which will ensure local extinction #Lion
#Coexistence #DICECON20 #Humwild1

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My study signifies hopes in conservation if government agencies and conservation practitioners involves local people in major decision making for sustainable conservation that support people and widlife interactions #Lion #Coexistence #Welling #DICECON20 #humanwild1

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My results indicate that 79% of respondents with high rate of livestock losses to lions have high propensity to kill lions following depredation incidence. Interestingly, 80% of young individuals (18-40 years) want to see lions in their ecosystems #DICECON20 #Coexstence

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To investigate the current cultural changes that are driving motivations toward lion killing I used semi-structured questionnaires for 35 interviewees (n=105) and participatory rural appraisal in 10 focal communities across Amboseli #coexistence #HWC #Lion

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As part of my ongoing research project am looking forward to presenting my MSc research on impacts of cultural changes towards motivations in #lion killing among the Maasai community,Ambosel ecosystem,Kenya #DICECON20 #HWC

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Am excited to share some of the predictors that may motivates local people from killing #lions

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With plenty of pastures and less people in Selenkei conservancy wildlife are enjoying a historical experience in the wild. Let's value them for future benefits.