Meet Richard Turere, the Kenyan teen who built flashing “Lion Lights” from scrap as an 11-year-old and stopped lions from taking his family’s cattle
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Thu, 6 August 2026
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Richard Turere was little when lions repeatedly broke into his family's cattle enclosure at night, killing livestock the Maasai family depended on for their livelihood. The attacks took place near the southern boundary of Nairobi National Park, where expanding settlements have long brought farmers and wildlife into conflict.