Other male lion coalitions from Masai Mara

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(09-08-2024, 09:28 PM)KM600 Wrote:

(09-08-2024, 08:17 PM)BA0701 Wrote:

(09-08-2024, 11:29 AM)BigLion39 Wrote: Olobor case update from a few days ago. Thanks to Luis Franco Jr and David Kipruto and their team for all their tremendous efforts. Its the best the animals and us get as the courts refused to take criminal action.

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While, this is tremendously good news, I thought such protections already existed for the big cats, in the same way it is illegal to permit your domestic herds to graze within the conservancy, as well. I hope they enforce these new laws strictly, and that there are strict penalties for breaking them. Happy days!

I think it just means rangers have more power to do what is necessary. As far as I understand, these farmers / tribesmen very much dictate the power rn, I mean they go out of their way to kill lions as revenge for their cattle dying eventho it was their actions which led to that altercation in the first place. And as we’ve seen, nothing happens to them even while knowing it’s very much illegal. I’d hope they’re allowed to put up a stronger force whether it be chasing the same ppl out for illegal grazing or hunting lions and if none of that works, they have a license to shoot to kill, which I seriously doubt they will have but atleast to me seems necessary. 

Judging by the statement about the protection ‘almost being to the protection of rhinos’ means they prolly wont have access to shoot to kill but can put up a stronger force against these same ppl. Like I think u were starting to hint at tho, this is very dependant on how far they’re willing to take this, because we all know it’s only gonna be sooner or later before another lion is poached, may have already happened since that statement so let’s see how serious they really are.

Yes, that is exactly what I was saying. Lawlessness should never be tolerated, period. Whatever the penalty may be, then let it be done. Lawlessness permitted, only begets more lawlessness. Reply

[KM600]

The first video of the new BRBs documentary, I was meant to send this on the day it first come out but thought I’d watch an episode first before recommending.

Altogether I thoroughly enjoyed it, a very lengthy documentary in terms of per episode, but unfortunately there’s only 3 episodes that will be released, and all 3 have already been released under the same channel. If it followed their story in detail like Savage Kingdom, it’d be so much better but this is better than nothing for sure.

There’s definitely a few things I didn’t like as much from just the first episode. It’s very much focused on Olobor and Oloshipa (or Olpadan) as they refer to him in the show and rarely mentions their brothers. When it does mention the other 3, it very much downplays their importance in their coalition, Oloimina is described as useless when hunting and ‘never takes part’ whereas Lorkulup and Olosiadu are also seem to be of little importance. I mean there’s a video clip of Lorkulup hunting with the pride from the very start and the narrator talks about how he only starts to join in on the hunt after his mothers went for the kill first, which as I had just seen was straight up bs.

They also say Olobor had killed his own sister from Black Rock Pride which was untrue, it was a Rongai subadult female. Hopefully the other boys start to get as much airtime as by the end of the first episode, they’re established pride males. Anyways, besides all the stuff that I didn’t like, it’s definitely worth a watch.

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