Warden Emmanuel Koech has worked in six different national parks in Kenya, monitoring wildlife and tracking down poachers. He told AFKtravel.com about a close encounter with lions. “There was a report on lions which had strayed out of the park preying on livestock. We were unable to locate the culprit lion after combing the area for three hours. A community member proposed using tracker dogs. Sure enough, the lion roared inside the bush and we called in the vet team for sedating and relocating it back to the national park. After the vet darted the lion, the lion didn’t move. We thought it was dead. We decided to approach on foot. In a split second, the lion roared and jumped over the vehicle and ran away with the dart still in him. We gave it a chase for a while, then the drugs took control and it fell down. We narrowly escaped death that day.”
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