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, so many images. 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? i think the expanse of it is not something i could be prepared for. like the it takes over the entire horizon. anthony: what a shithole, right? [ laughter ] kamau: what a shithole.
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 with the coloration. white was an african name
back, there was one girl who made it to high school. and she s speaking english, she s dressing up, and the other girls are like, you know what? i d like to be her. and the more, and more, and more they ve seen, go through high school, graduate, slowly by 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 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
anthony: they used to shoot animals in safaris. 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. i think we need another word or something. are there elephants out here right now? karmusha: so we have elephants, yeah. anthony: have you ever ridden on top of an elephant? kamau: no. anthony: i have done that. and you know, once again, a little interesting little factoid. kamau: here we go. anthony: when you re sitting on top of an elephant, the sensation, the tactile quality is like you re sitting on top of a giant scrotum. [ laughter ] kamau: wow, you re really selling it. tony s useless safari fa
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?