Lion Landscapes - Wildlife Ranger Challenge 2025

Rangers are Africa’s unsung heroes. They hold diverse roles as conservationists, teachers, community support workers, leaders and much more.
 

The Wildlife Ranger Challenge, organised by Tusk, is a celebration of solidarity, connection and camaraderie for the ranger profession. Culminating on 20th September 2025, the campaign raises vital funds for Africa's biodiversity guardians.

Laikipia Lion Rangers: Supporting Coexistence on the Front Lines

At Lion Landscapes, we work with conservation partners across the Laikipia landscape to train and support local rangers already working on the ground to address human-carnivore conflict. These ‘Lion Rangers’ reduce predation on livestock in their areas by helping livestock owners with predator-proof husbandry techniques, and by closely monitoring lion movements. 

By helping to strengthen livestock enclosures and finding lost livestock, as well as alerting herders when lions are nearby, they help prevent incidents before they occur. When conflict does arise, they respond rapidly, using best practices to resolve the situation and minimise the chances of future losses of livestock to predation, and retaliatory killing of carnivores. This includes safely responding to any wildlife poisoning events, minimising the risk to other wildlife, people and livestock.

Rangers also collect important data on conflict incidences and wildlife sightings that improves our understanding of human-carnivore coexistence and carnivore population dynamics. 

By strengthening the skills and capacity of these rangers, our programme empowers them to support coexistence between people and carnivores at the landscape scale, benefiting both people and wildlife.

 

Give today and the Scheinberg Relief Fund will match every dollar donated, amplifying your impact. Find out more at wildliferangerchallenge.org