A team from three AP departments – video journalist Kathy Young, health and science; reporter Christina Larson, health & science; video journalist Bram Janssen, global enterprise; and chief photographer Jerome Delay, Johannesburg – chronicalled efforts to save one of Earth’s most iconic species, the African lion, in a package that include intimate portraits of the Maasai people trying to live among lions, and stunning photos and video of the landscape they inhabit.
‘What Can Be Saved’: Living with lions in Tanzania
Saitoti Petro, center wearing blue, tracks lions near the village of Loibor Siret, Tanzania, July 6, 2019. Petro is one of more than 50 lion monitors from communities on the Maasai Steppe who walk daily patrol routes to help shepherds shield their cattle in pasture, with support and training from a small Tanzanian nonprofit called African People and Wildlife.
AP Photo / Jerome Delay