A History of LION AID™

When was LION AID™ established?

LION AID™ was originally established in 2004, following from a meeting with Chris Macsween, Cameron Macsween, Pieter Kat and Kate Nicholls in Botswana. The intention was to form a UK charity to raise funds to support lion research activities in Africa, initially targeting funding exclusively for the Okavango Lion Research Programme. The charity was duly established, and a website was designed and implemented.

Fundraising activities were planned, but in October 2004 Pieter Kat was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver in Botswana. It took him over a year to recover any mobility, and further surgery was necessitated in 2006. As he was the principal researcher on the programme and crucial by presence in the UK to any fundraising effort, LION AID™ necessarily became dormant.

In early 2009, Chris Macsween and Pieter Kat decided to revive LION AID™ with new priorities and with a new board of trustees.

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