LionAid Predator/Livestock Damage Mitigation Project in Merrueshi, Kenya.We estimate there are less than 10,000 wild lions left now in Africa and possibly only 5 viable populations. Over 100 lions a year are killed in Kenya as a result of retaliatory killings by rural communities, particularly in areas where community land adjoins protected areas like National Parks and National Wildlife Reserves. These communities are now suffering from debilitating losses of their valuable livestock to predation incidents. This vicious circle needs to be broken. Not only to safeguard the community, but also to ensure that healthy populations of wildlife can co-exist with livestock on community land. Here the big benefit of such peaceful co-existence comes into play. It paves the way for additional future sustainable employment for the communities themselves from eco-tourism and conservancy ventures. We need a sustainable scheme that compensates the communities reliably, fully and promptly for any livestock losses to predation whilst, at the same time, ensuring that their livestock enclosures (bomas) are adequately protected. Our project has been developed in collaboration with the Maasai communities themselves and has their full support. They run the scheme themselves. Maasai Elders run the project locally. Once bomas are adequately protected with flashing lights, experience has shown that predation incidents drop by a margin of at least 70%.Not a single lion or other predator has been killed in retaliation since we started the project in September 2022. Further funding is essential to expand the project area.