It was nighttime on the plains of southeastern Africa, and Northeastern student Ryan Sewell could see the eyes of members of a lion pride staring back in the distance.
That wasn’t the most intimidating part. Sewell’s team had just tranquilized lioness LF6, “a rough and grumpy old lady,” as Sewell described her, and he had a job to do.
“I was tasked with removing LF6’s collar, which I’d say was more terrifying to me even though she was asleep, just because of her reputation,” Sewell said.
Sewell, a fourth-year ecology and evolutionary biology major at Northeastern, recently completed a co-op at Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, an organization that works to protect the southeastern African country of Malawi’s wildlife from threats such as deforestation, poaching and the pet trade.
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