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My purpose is not just to be a scientist, my purpose is really to do conservation through education, through innovation, through storytelling. As a conservation scientist, you’re only producing scientific articles that are only read by other scientists. But when you are on National Geographic or Disney, that inspires people and educates them to care about nature.

— Paula Kahumbu

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What we know about elephants today is incredible,They are like people.

My job is to just bring sanity to the protection of our natural heritage.

If we’re going to do conservation in Africa, we have to be audacious. We’ve got to be courageous, and we’ve got to think big.

For too long, conservation has been seen as a mzungu (white person's) thing. It's not. This is our land, our wildlife, and our story to tell. We must be at the forefront of protecting it.

We have to tell stories that make people fall in love with wildlife. You don't protect what you don't love, and you can't love what you don't know. That's why we make 'Wildlife Warriors'—to show the beauty and the drama of our natural world.

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