The village borders Amboseli National Park - in southern Kenya. Conservation group Lion Guardians said he was "the oldest male lion in our ecosystem and possibly in Africa". Most lions live to ...

Since 2007 a program there called Lion Guardians has recruited Maasai warriors—young men for whom lion killing has traditionally been part of a rite of passage known as olamayio—to serve ...

Before the lion started appearing as a powerful symbol ... This introduction in the 12th century established lions as the guardians of the faith and symbols of brave knights.