Living Walls is part of the Maasailand Lion Conservation Program

Living Walls is part of the Maasailand Lion Conservation Program In Tanzania's Tarangire ecosystem, lions and the Maasai people live alongside one another outside the borders of Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks. People and lions come into direct and frequent conflict when the big cats attack and kill the Maasai's livestock and harm people. Intense retaliatory killing of lions occurs on a regular basis.

Now, with support from the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative, a project called Living Walls, using a unique combination of chain-link fencing and fast-growing trees as fence posts, is creating special enclosures in Tarangire to keep cattle safe from lions, and lions out of the way of Maasai spears.

Living Walls is part of the Maasailand Lion Conservation Program that integrates lion research, lion-livestock conflict prevention, lion habitat protection, and lion conservation education with the aim of operating improving the lives of lions and people alike.