Paula Kahumbu
@paulakahumbu
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PhD Ecologist. Nat Geo Explorer, filmmaker, Presenter Secrets Of The Elephants, CEO WildlifeDirect #HandsOffOurElephants, WWF Board.
Joined January 2009
.@Kenyans Subscribe for my website to find out more about my work and to receive fun the behind-the-scenes during the making of Secrets of the Elephants .
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Congratulations Dr William Samoei Ruto, the 5th President of the Republic of Kenya. May your legacy be one of poverty alleviation, climate justice and citizen empowerment. May the ecology, and economy of our beloved Kenya thrive under your leadership.
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.@Environment_Ke @CCF_Kenya someone is allegedly digging up & selling ancient giant baobab trees in Kilifi County. Please can you look into this and stop the destruction of our trees HE - @WilliamsRuto has clearly communicated that trees are sacred to be planted not destroyed
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BREAKING Kenya Nairobi - Joanna Stuchburry was shot dead this afternoon known 4 her relentlessly attempts to protect Kiambu forest from developers - she was shot four times in her driveway nothing was stolen. May she Rest in Eternal Peace. May the culprits be caught & punished.
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BREAKING Mr Nyiragongo in DRC is erupting - video from colleagues in DRC. Hoping people can get away
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.@eACC @forestserviceKE @kenyans @PoliceKE BREAKING: Ololua Forest land grab!. 66 acres in gazetted Oloolua Forest has been subdivided & allocated to 41 individuals & companies. Join me in calling on govt of 🇰🇪 2 take immediate action against officials & revoke titles. Pls RT.
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.@SakajaJohnson if this is true, you need new advisors. These palms r unlikely to survive. We have many incredibly beautiful palm species - they r dying due to a weevil that arrived on an imported exotic palm. The only winners of this project will be hungry weevils.
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Another tourism disaster in the making - driver steps onto lions tail!!! WTH really???
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Kenya’s Nairobi City face lift - our city engineers are tree haters, lovers of noise, dust & concrete. Killing trees & calling it development is backward & dangerous. Some people are just not listening to Uhuru Kenyatta - may their terms end swiftly
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.@DCI_Kenya please investigate and arrest these people who are defying the order to stop baobab tree removal from kenya. These 4 ancient trees are near Ntwapa now heading south.
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Another conservation win for Kenya -No to Coal Power!!
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BREAKING NEWS Design of the Nairobi expressway revised to ensure no land is hived off Uhuru Park, Transport CS Macharia says after public uproar. Go go go Kenya!!!! We all win!# #SaveUhuruPark #IAmWangariMaathai.
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That’s my brother!!! 🔥🔥.
For many the water hyacinth is a menace, but Kenyan entrepreneur Dominic Kahumbu is pioneering a machine that turns the weed into clean cooking fuel
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Banned from the Kenyan parks will not stop me from fighting 4 them. Many ppl r asking how they can help. My message to you is GO TO THE PARKS ON MY BEHALF. Make ur visit public on social media, report to @kwskenya on the good, & the challenges. Show how much u care Pls RT.
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.@StateHouseKenya I am calling on His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta to Declare our National parks SACRED - vital to the economy & heritage of Kenya. The wildlife policy shd make parks untouchable by anyone whose actions cause irreparable harm to the integrity & habitats #TsavoFires.
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RIP President Moi. We didn’t agree on many things but he did support conservation, created many new parks, started our tree planting culture & ignited passion for burning iviry. May he RIP. Condolences to his family.
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Three reasons why selling rhino horn is immoral 1) It has no medicinal value 2) It has no medicinal value 3) It has no medicinal value RT.
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Help us save super Tusker’s like Tim - for every retweet @Amarula will donate a dollar for elephant conservation #DontLetThemDisappear #WorldElephantDay Pls RT
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FAIL The 11th rhino has died. The translocation was a Ksh 100 million shilling 100% FAILURE Disgusted, ashamed, saddest low point for Kenya.
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.@kot a sacred tree faces killers. Help me raise this to the attention of @WilliamsRuto @NemaKenya, @KeForestService @Environment_Ke, pls tell @KenyaRailways_ STOP killing trees violates our 5 bn tree campaign. Gitaru, Kiambu Cnty, nxt to Greystone Heights & Gitaru Apt Pls Rt
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BREAKING KENYA - slashes park fees by 50% for locals and foreigners to rescue the tourism sector; fee for filmmakers also slashed. #GoToTheParks.
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This is older footage of a very famous iconic Kenyon elephant named Tim who lived in Amboseli and is related to a number of other bulls like Tolstiy, Townsend and possibly Craig who shares many features. He was 51 when he passed on from natural causes. He was famously filmed in.
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.@StateHouseKenya Appealing to His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta to pas a new law that GRAZING IN PROTECTED AREAS AND SETTING FIRES IN PARKS a crime against the economy & treat all offenders as criminals against the economy (EQUIVALENT TO OFFENCES AGAINST THE SGR).
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TIME TO TAKE SIDES ON TROPHY HUNTING IN AFRICA. The recent murder of two famous Amboseli elephants in Tanzania in a paid to kill “hunt” has horrified Kenyans and the global conservation community. Adding salt to the wound, two people, not indigenous Africans, argue that Kenya is.
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The fact that the Inland Container Depot Road is being built inside Nairobi Park should be the concern of all. It was never subjected to EIA in yet another attack on Kenya’s protected areas. YES Nairobi Park is in crisis - the Photograph powerfully depicts that with the SGR.
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Bush fires are raging across Tsavo West - Ksh 20M needed for firefighting equipment, 6M for fuel & mobilizing people. Anyone with contacts at .@totalKenya please help - let’s appeal to them to support the emergency efforts with fuel at Vii. Asante pls RT
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.@SakajaJohnson @museumsofkenya @Environment_Ke @globalforests BREAKING: Ololua Forest land grab!. 66 acres in gazetted Oloolua Forest has been subdivided & allocated to 41 individuals & companies. Govt of 🇰🇪must take immediate action against officials & revoke titles. Pls RT.
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A disappointing appointment today has had a surprising outcome - Kenyans are now United in a call to President Uhuru Kenyatta to step in to #SaveNairobiPark and they are demanding developers to get their #HandsOffOurParks #NNP #WildLivesMatter #ListenToNature.
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.@NatGeo My @ROLEX @InsideNatGeo award just arrived. Looking forward to my keynote this evening during the #NatGeoFest
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Proud that my organization @WildlifeDirect is one of the featured organizations in the Waterbear Network, a new free Netflix for conservation. At the launch this week Prince Harry called for ‘doing not talking’ on environment and climate crisis -
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2 inches of rain & Nairobi is flooded - no surprise here, East Africa’s economic hub has been built by destroying nature, felling trees, draining swamps, concrete & tarmac cannot absorb rainwater - GR8 source of sustainable jobs in road work, lawyers, plumbing . we never learn
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Dear Friends,. This weekend I worked with a group of nearly 50 high profile Kenya based individuals and organizations in crafting and launching an Avaaz campaign to Tanzania’s President Suluhu to ban hunting of elephants in the Kenya cross border area in order to save the
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Crazy Kenyans near Embu - starting the new year with trauma, stitches, scars & shame.
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FAIL!!! All 11 translocated rhinos in Kenya have died.Sad time for Rhinos when more animals die from mismanagement than poachers guns :).
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.@KOT_Loyals Nairobi park today by the Club House - am Earthday reminder about why we must keep the park as free of developments as possible - Nature gives back many times over. Happy Earth Day.
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.@kot @WWF_Kenya @kwskenya Wildlife belongs to Kenyans. Conservation should be taught in schools as a curriculum topic with visits to parks. Retweet if you agree Like if you think it should be actioned in 2023 #ConservationEducation
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.@KOT_Loyals Nairobi Park is not a useless waste of space in a rapidly modernizing Africa. It’s a potent symbol of who we are, what we value, & what we are proud of as #Kenyans! #SDG14 #ParisAgreement #AichiTargets @unepwcmc @IUCN #SaveNNP #VisitKenya @magicalkenya pls RT.
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.@mohammedhersi @Environment_Ke BREAKING I was Accused by KiliAvo of Contempt of court 4 raising awareness abt destruction of Amboseli elephant corridor by avocado farm. Ruling today - Case Dismissed. Lets work together to save our @magicalkenya Pls RT
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Many people have commented on the loss of land fm Nairobi Park from the development of Southern Bypass, SGR but there are still other developments that are not public nor transparent. I hope Parliament demands full disclosure on all the threats facing the integrity of this gem.
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Elephant aunts take care of babies even shading them from the hot sun. Help us save elephants by raising awareness - don’t buy ivory, For every retweet @Amarula will donate one dollar for elephant conservation #DontLetThemDisappear #WorldElephantDay Pls RT
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I don't think I have ever seen her quite so glorious - Her Majesty Mt Kilimanjaro this morning RT
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When your driver dresses up for work . yes she is a driver!! Spectacular Samburu
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.@KOT_Loyals For those who wish to send something to help Ranger Jess Njeri the paybill number is : 516600, account: 0320046394001. That will go through to Wildlife Works Elephant Protection Trust, all donations will be collected and passed directly to the next of kin. Thanks
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Say hello to Tim, one of Africa’s largest elephants if not the biggest - right here in AMBOSELI National Park Kenya.
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Kiambu Forest land grabbers exposed by CS Tobiko - over 90% of the forest has bn grabbed! Joannah Stutchbury was gunned down in broad daylight 4 fighting against grabbers. Tobiko calls on parliament to restore the land to KFS #Justice4Joannah @Greenpeace @Environment_Ke
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He just got banned from Maasai Mara for irresponsible and dangerous engagement with a leopard cub
Arnfinn Johansen is a Norwegian nature photographer whose wildlife images have earned him international awards and recognition #magicalkenya
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PLEASE HELP US FIND THIS MISSING CHILD - LAST SEEN IN KITENGELA
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Such a pleasure seeing wild Cheetah in Serengeti - this makes me so happy.
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Filing ekephants with @SavetheElephant in Samburu - what a great day for everyone except the tripod
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.@Kenyans Pls Support the landmark case by Friends of Oloolua Forest @ Public Interest Litigation & Advocacy 4 Environment in case against brazen Ololua Forest land grab by notable individuals & governmental bodies threatening integrity Nairobi’s critical ecological sites.
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.@KOT_Loyals 1/5 WANTED - ACTION NOW by @NemaKenya @tunajibu to stop massive land clearing for commercial avocado farm right inside a fenced wildlife corridor connecting Amboseli National Park and the Chyullu Hills/Tsavo ecosystem. #EcologicalEmergencyKenya Pls RT
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.@SakajaJohnson Cutting trees will not solve the problem of ugly Marabou storks, they occupy Nairobi because of the Dandora dump, the largest landfill in Africa. They clean up our wastes. If you want to help,Introduce waste recycling and proper disposal #MakeNairobiZeroLandfill.
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.@IG_NPS @KenyaPolice3 @CCF_Kenya @StateHouseKenya @KOT_Loyals DAY 4 SINCE HER MURDER AND NO ARREST YET We hugged a tree for #JoannahStuchbury today - Uhuru Kenyatta promised speedy #Justice4Joannah
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.@LarryMadowo please give us a shout out for @CNN #CallToEarth feature on conservation in Kenya on Xmas eve & Xmas day. Asante #SaveWildlife
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WANTED photographer based in South Coast (Kenya) for a 5 day photo shoot job. Please inbox me.
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Tracing the source of the Mara River we flew to the Mau where thousands of acres are being rehabilitated We need to plant trees. But 1st we need to stop deforestation of this precious life giving & biodiversity treasure trove. @wildlifedirect @Environment_Ke
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.@Environment_Ke @MikeSonko @moscakenya notice how green Vienna is - they call the trees THE LUNGS OF VIENNA - which is helping our @EliudKipchoge to break a world record - maybe we should learn from this, & STOP cutting our trees in Nairobi? RT
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.@KOT_Loyals join me in welcoming TIRA home - now two years old, our spotted zebra was spotted on migration in the #MaasaiMara after being on vacation in Tanzania #GreatestMigration #MagicalKenya
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.@citizentvkenya @NPSC_KE despite being issued a @NemaKenya stop order 4 construction, Diamond Trust Bank continues to build on riparian - Arrest these criminals now before they destroy yet more vital ecosystem which will lead to untold suffering Please share
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Huge flocks of European Storks have arrived in Kenya for the winter migration. They are roosting in acacia trees in a Conservancy, it’s another reason.m for us to preserve our wild spaces, it serves wildlife from very far away. @magical.wildlife @magicalkenya @wildlifedirect
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Glorious elephants - we are so blessed to have these wonderful beings with us.
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1/3 It is with deep shock & horror that we learn this morning of the death of long time conservationist, Esmond Bradley Martin, whom police say died in suspicious circumstances st his home in Karen, Nairobi. Esmond led investigations into ivory & rhino horn trafficking.
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Kenya is one of the few countries where elephants are safe @wildlifedirect has partnered with @amarula to raise awareness around the world for every retweet @Amarula will donate a dollar for elephant conservation #DontLetThemDisappear #WorldElephantDay Pls RT
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.@DCI_Kenya BREAKING Nairobi National Park Land GRABBED @DCI_Kenya @NemaKenya STOP THIS NOW! @KOT_Loyals - #SayNoToImpunity #KWSCorruotionFree #SaveNNP .
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Feeling extremely sad & frustrated at hundreds of dead elephants in Botswana, & dozens of rhinos with faces hacked. What's happening? Who is responsible, what's being done. Why is the government denying the seriousness of the problem? . No answers. Just animal bodies piling up.
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.@UKenyatta @tunajibu today we laid Soila Saiyalel to rest, Kenyan woman who studied elephants in Amboseli for 27 years, featured on BBC films. Pls Recognize her & Honor Soila w/ scholarships 2 build Kenyan women leaders in conservation #HandsOffOurElephants RT
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I received this harrowing image from a friend. The drought in Kenya is leaving no survivors, thousands of livestock & wildlife are perishing. This is in place called Embolioi Kajiado.
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.@wildlifedirect preparing for the big @WhitleyAwards ceremony tonight - fingers and toes crossed. Wish me and fellow conservationists 😊
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We got stopped by police enroute to Masai Mara to shoot Season 2 of @WildWarriorsTV and the police man asked for the phone number of the owner - he wanted to buy my baby #Landrover!!!
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.@StateHouseKenya My message to His Excellency on FIRES IN TSAVO WEST .1. Declare the fires in Tsavo West National Park a National Ecological Disaster and give the fire fighting teams adequate support to fight them, to investigate the arsonists and to bring them to justice
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1/10 I have personally never seen so many dead animals, both wildlife & livestock. #Kajiado .#KenyaDrought @wildlifedirect
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We just lost a 6 year old boy, a @KenyaAirways pilot and a @KRACare officer, a Bodaboda driver, a teen & others died from police brutality - & some Kenyan “journalists” r using airtime to question @EstherPassaris donation of sanitary pads. @ntvkenya pls grow up.
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.@KOT_Loyals @WWF_Kenya It’s not everyday that you get to see this kind of giant in Kenya. Help us save the elephants of Amboseli whose critical habitat is facing extreme threat due to avocado farming #SaveAmboseli .@magicalkenya #StopKiliAvo
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BREAKING: TROPHY HUNTING OF AMBOSELI ELEPHANTS IN TANZANIA. H.E. Joseph Ole Lenku, Governor of Kajiado has issues a statement against the hunting of Amboseli elephants. Now we need @DrAlfredMutua @KWSKenya and @WilliamsRuto to recently take this up with the Tanzanian counterpart
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NO Africa is not United on reopening of ivory trade. Sale of Zimb ivory puts all elephants in peril. Eles r recovering from the last catastrophic slaughter. Only fools make the same mistake twice. Most African countries do not support ivory trade. #HandsOffOurElephants Pls RT.
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.@WilliamsRuto Good evening your Excellency, we urgently need to address the killing of our cross border super Tusker elephants. We lost 4 to hunters in Tanzania in the last 8 months, now, only 10 remain. They are easy to hunt as they are habituated to people and vehicles in
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That a hippo gets killed 4 attacking someone who clearly was in the wrong is disgusting. Perhaps we need to forget about educating visitors & start schools for hippos on tourism etiquette Class 1 Just smile for the camera, DONT bite the visitors @kwsyou can do better surely.
KWS officers shoot dead the lone hippo that attacked and killed a Chinese tourist and injured another at Lake Naivasha.
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It’s hard to persuade people to care about something that they just don’t understand. I am calling m on all Kenyans to go to her, touch her, hug her, get a photo with her. Share it and ask your friends to do the same. Let us defend what is right and good against evil.
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.@KOT_Loyals please join me in congratulating a young @NatGeo Explorer. So proud of Tiassa Mutunkei - A real Wildlife Warrior for #Kenya!
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Prof. Wangari Maathai camping at Uhuru Park, Feb 1991. Her courage helped protect Uhuru Park & Karura Forest from powerful land grabbers. Join us this afternoon, 12-6pm to celebrate & reflect on her legacy. It’s a family event, bring children. at Uhuru Park, Freedom Corner. RT
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Just signed the first batch of copies - buy it online and watch Secrets of the Elephants when it premiers on April 22nd, Earth Day.
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Happy World Rhino day to all the women and men who defend these magnificent animals @OlPejeta @wildlifedirect @WildWarriorsTV
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The killing of the worlds only white giraffe & her foal shd be National & Global headlines!This slaughter reflects how little we treasure our unique heritage, & how much work we need to do to educate our people & government abt the importance of wildlife
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