Namibia's famous desert-adapted lions in the northwestern part of the country largely owe their survival to a dedicated team of Lion Rangers. These rangers patrol the vast Kunene Region on foot, equipped with little more than smartphones to record their progress and environmental observations. The Lion Rangers programme was founded in 2018 as part of the Human-Lion Conflict Management Plan for North West Namibia introduced by Namibia's Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) in response to escalating human-lion conflict on this region. The programme is based on community conservation approaches developed by the Lion Guardians programme in East Africa, and by Namibia's Save The Rhino Trust. It brings together conservancies, government and non-governmental organisations around the shared mission to protect farmers' livelihoods and their families' wellbeing by limiting human-lion conflict whilst conducting lion research and monitoring. The programme has expanded to eleven conservancies: Anabeb, Doro !Nawas, Ehi-Rovipuka, ≠Khoadi-//Hôas, Omatendeka, Orupupa, Puros, Sesfontein, Sorris Sorris, Torra, and Tsiseb. It employs 47 lion rangers and four Rapid Response Teams across the Kunene and Erongo regions in northwestern Namibia.