a negative connotation of safari. anthony: they used to shoot animals in safari. there s our kind of safari and then there s the, you know, trump jr. safari. kamau: yeah, i think i was afraid every time i said the word that people were just like, what are you doing? like anthony: no, this is this is a good kind of safari. kamau: okay. anthony: good for the world. kamau: okay, good. karmusha: 100% good for the world. kamau: good for the world. karmusha: good for all the communities. kamau: i think we need another word or something. karmusha: see an elephant? anthony: where? karmusha: right there. kamau: even if you see them in a zoo closer, they re behind bars that it just doesn t feel connected. but i feel like we re right here. anthony: yeah, he s actually going someplace. kamau: yeah, he s not just walking in a circle. he s actually got stuff to do. anthony: the fact of the
the africa of dreams, of films, the natural world. but a world under constant threat. lewa wildlife conservancy seeks to address the problem of keeping all this alive and safe without excluding or marginalizing the people who ve lived here for centuries. 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. kamau: this is significantly better than the zoo, i guess that goes without saying. anthony: yeah. kamau: for some reason i had
slowly they get to see the value themselves. education works very well. kamau: are there efforts for people in the community who couldn t afford to come in here to sort of see what s going on in here so they can have the wanjiku: yeah, we have a conservation education program here, with over 3,500 school children come on to lewa, free of charge, go around, get to see wildlife, because unless you can afford to go to national parks or to places like lewa, then you definitely wouldn t have the opportunity to interact with wildlife. kamau: so we re headed towards the lions? is that what we re doing right now? 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? just
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. kamau: it s a white rhino? karmusha: that is a white rhino. kamau: so how do karmusha: it s nothing to do