Maasai Morans swap spears for footballs in fight to protect lions

The Maasai Football League in Amboseli is transforming young Maasai morans’ attitudes, reducing lion hunting, and promoting wildlife conservation while fostering local sporting talent...

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The 2025 Maasai Football League finals recently concluded in the greater Amboseli landscape, where Kuku team emerged victorious. This rapidly growing community sports initiative, an extension of the Maasai Olympics, is successfully diverting young Maasai morans from traditional lion hunting towards structured competitive sports, significantly aiding wildlife conservation efforts.

Lion populations in the Amboseli ecosystem have surged from roughly 20 two decades ago to an estimated 250 today.
The league, launched in 2019 by the Big Life Foundation, is credited with reducing lion killings to near zero.
Samuel Kaanki, Maasai Olympics and Moran Education Coordinator at Big Life Foundation, emphasized that football helps reshape the identity of young morans, moving them from lion hunting to becoming "champions of conservation."

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