karmusha: so now you can see at the peak, you can just see something sticking out. that s a lion sitting. anthony: oh, i see. right next to the little tree. kamau: whoa. anthony: oh, there s a bunch of them. karmusha: yeah, yeah. if we re lucky, they might come down the hill. kamau: that s lucky? we define lucky in different ways. karmusha: they seem to be having their eyes on something. he s going to go left so we have a good position. kamau: hey, how you doing lion? so the lion is about 30 feet from us or so?
lived here for centuries. that is a delicate balance. man and nature. how to responsibly care for one without negatively impacting the other in a world of ever-decreasing resources. karmusha: this is dave, guys. look at this guy here. this is dave the giraffe. he s a residential giraffe. hi, dave. anthony: our guide is karmushu kiama. he grew up in a village near here and has a deep knowledge of the wildlife of lewa. anthony: are those termite mounds? karmusha: termite mounds, yup. kamau: that s filled with termites? karmusha: that s filled with termites. kamau: that s horrible. anthony: a little useless trivia, in a fire fight, you hide behind one of those it will provide useful coverage. kamau: this is my first safari, that s a very specific safari with an expert, and with you with useless information, this is a i paid extra for this. this is significantly better than the zoo, i guess that goes
ever-present danger to both the animals at lewa and the people who look after them. particularly the rhinoceros, whose horn is believed by wealthy chinese buyers to be a strong medicine with virility-enhancing powers. the reality, that the substance that makes up a rhino horn is the same as the human fingernail, does not deter a market that will pay tens of thousands of dollars for a single horn. with 62,000 acres to cover, lewa s anti-poaching program is necessarily aggressive, inclusive, and cutting edge, relying on local trackers, advanced tracking technologies, and perhaps most importantly, good community outreach and intelligence gathering. if the local people are not on your side, you are at a serious disadvantage. karmusha: so that s a white rhino.
anthony: whoa, what s that? karmusha: that s a rhino. our first rhino. kamau: whoa, whoa. wow. anthony: the conservancy was set up specifically to protect these guys. initially a cattle ranch owned and operated by the craig family, the kenyan government, after finally acknowledging that the rhinoceros was on the verge of extinction, asked the family to set aside some of their property to bring all surviving rhinos here to recover and hopefully restore their numbers. from only 15 animals a few years back, there are over 150 of them today. [ gunshots ] poaching is, of course, an
with the coloration. white was an afrikaan name whit which means wide-mouth. and whoever came to write about them put an e there. then it became white. kamau: okay, because you said white rhino, and i was like karmusha: yeah, it s not white. kamau: i think his dad might be black. anthony: does it look like you wanted it to look? or expected it to look? kamau: i mean, uh, no. i mean, i guess i don t know. i mean, i grew up as a kid, you know, my first images of africa were tarzan, you know? so i don t think i knew what kenya africa was. you know? anthony: what a shithole, right? [ laughter ] kamau: what a shithole. i mean, the other thing i m