I am the Founder and Executive Director of Wildlife Conservation Action (WCA). The mission of WCA is to build the capacity of local communities to protect and coexist with lions and other large carnivores. We aim to take a landscape level approach to conservation that takes into account the needs of people, wildlife and the environment. We achieve this through sound-scientific research, conservation action, capacity building, human-wildlife conflict mitigation, conservation education and sustainable livelihood strategies. Our activities include wildlife abundance and distribution surveys, radio collaring, camera trapping, reducing human carnivore conflict through our Community Guardians and use of predator proof mobile bomas, conservation education, undergraduate and graduate training, alternative livelihoods and improved food security.