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We are losing our national heritage not to poverty, but to ignorance and greed. Our elephants, our rhinos, they don't belong to the government or to NGOs—they belong to the people of Kenya. We must become their guardians.

— 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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