Environment

Team Lioness, the female ranger brigade that patrols Amboseli National Park

Olgulului, Kenya, 1 Jun (EFE), (Camera: Daniel Irungu).- Vultures do not lie and the Maasai know only too well their presence means a dead animal is near.Eunice Peneti, Sharon, Louise and Anastasia Sein's mission is to get to the carcass before any traffickers and they head towards the scavenger birds circling in the sky.An older Maasai woman warns them it is a wildebeest that has been hunted down by a lion.The wildebeest is barely recognisable. Its bones have been gnawed with only the head and ribs left. The women spot footprints near a bush."It was three lions," says one of them."There are two females and a male that have been roaming the area for a long time."The five young women make up Team Lioness, one of Kenya's few female ranger brigades.They patrol part of the 607 square kilometres of the Amboseli National Park, home to large elephant herds and crowned by Tanzania’s Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.FOOTAGE OF THE TEAM LIONESS AND AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK.SOUNDBITES OF: -EUNICE PENETI, TEAM LIONESS.-PATRICK SAYALEL, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE COMMUNITY RANGERS AND MANAGER OF THE KITIRO COMMUNITY RESERVE.