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Nairobi, 5 February 2022: WildlifeDirect yesterday launched Season two of the Wildlife Warriors tv collection on the Karen Blixen Espresso Gardens. The 13 half collection will premiere on Kenyan tv screens by way of Citizen TV beginning this Sunday sixth February 2022 at 5.30 p.m. EAT. Season two of Wildlife Warriors is that includes greater than 20 heroines and heroes.
The launch was graced by Hon. Joseph Wakaba Mucheru EGH, the Cupboard Secretary for the Ministry of Info, Communications and Know-how, Innovation and Youth Affairs, Chargé d’Affaires Eric Kneedler – U.S. Embassy in Kenya, Ms. Jane Marriott OBE – British Excessive Commissioner to Kenya, Rachel Rivera -Wild Lives Basis, Timothy Owase – Kenya Movies Fee, Peter Kinyua – Chairman Kenya Forest Service, Mamo B. Mamo – Director Common at Nema, conservation heroes featured within the collection, and plenty of conservation companions.
Movies and storytelling about Africa by Africans are among the inspirations behind the conception of this extremely profitable tv program. Season one launched in April 2019 highlighted 14 heroes and heroines who shared their successes and challenges in wildlife and conservation in defending turtles, African wild canines, elephants, snakes, to call a couple of. One such hero is Ambrose Letoluai who was a part of a staff that helped in monitoring and photographing the elusive black leopard in Laikipia. Ambrose’s experience in monitoring leopards earned him a scholarship to pursue undergraduate research in Nairobi in addition to a brand new digital camera to assist in his analysis work.
A survey performed after Season one aired revealed that 51 p.c of Kenyans had watched it establishing a fertile floor for shaping debates that may encourage optimistic change in conserving Africa’s wildlife. The affect of the Wildlife Warriors collection has been felt past our borders. After a group screening of the “Saving Snakes in Watamu’ episode screened in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, the group have proven eager curiosity in studying about snakes of their nation. 7 out of the 13 episodes have acquired awards, recognition and particular screenings globally reinforcing our perception that there’s a demand for domestically produced movies.
The Wildlife Warriors documentary collection will proceed to shine a light-weight on native conservation heroes and create a platform to teach, encourage and fire up a name to motion inside viewers to worth and care about nature as a lot as we do.
The collection is produced and hosted by award-winning Kenyan conservationist and WildlifeDirect CEO Dr. Paula Kahumbu. It has been filmed and edited by the Nairobi-based manufacturing home Vivid Options Ltd.
The manufacturing of collection has been made attainable with the beneficiant assist of the American individuals via the US Company for Worldwide Growth and the US Division of Inside in partnership with the U.S. Division of Inside, the Wild Lives Basis, and the Nice Plains Basis.
“To guard our wildlife, we can’t do it with out recording this data for everyone. I discover it essential to search out methods of partaking and making certain that these movies can be found to each particular person on the earth in order that they will see what we’ve got. I really feel very proud to see this achieved in Kenya. I need you to know the dedication we’ve got as a authorities, is that we’ll assist and be certain that we give the mandatory necessities. We have now been discussing with the Kenya Movie Fee on how we are able to arrange a fund to place this actually essential information and data into individuals’s arms and houses. – Hon. Joseph Mucheru E.G.H, Cupboard Secretary within the Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs.
“Big congratulations to WildlifeDirect and all of the work that you simply put into this. The US Embassy in Kenya and the U.S. authorities is honored to companion with Paula and her unbelievable staff. Wildlife Warriors is about hope, optimism, and power. It’s about motivating the following technology to take motion, to have the identical form of power that Paula has. It’s about inspiring the following technology.” – Eric Kneedler, Cost d’Affaires -U.S. Embassy in Kenya.
It’s our hope that many extra younger individuals, individuals of the USA, individuals all around the world will likely be educated by this nice work. Wild Lives Basis has been supporting the collection and all of her work for years and we hope to do many extra years of labor.” – Rachel Rivera – Wild Lives Basis
“I can’t inform you how proud we’re of the success of Wildlife Warriors. We began Wildlife Warriors to convey our movies and our tales residence, to permit our personal individuals to inform our personal tales and to offer a voice to our heroines and heroes who’re on the frontline conserving wildlife and nature. We particularly needed to display that Kenyans have storytelling expertise, to inform our personal tales, not simply because we must always inform our personal tales but additionally as a result of we predict they’d resonate extra with fellow Kenyans. In season two, we needed to indicate how we might faucet into our conventional information and tradition that’s a part of our worth system as African individuals, as Kenyans. Wildlife Warriors is about getting individuals to cease and assume and be part of us to work collectively to avoid wasting our wildlife.” – Dr Paula Kahumbu, CEO at WildlifeDirect
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For extra data or interviews please contact Carol Ng’ang’a at [email protected]. Photos and movies can be found on request.
About WildlifeDirect:
WildlifeDirect is internationally acknowledged as a excessive affect Kenyan primarily based group that seeks to vary hearts, minds and legal guidelines in order that Africa’s wildlife endures without end. The mission of WildlifeDirect is to attach individuals to their wildlife and nature and provoking them to treasure it and act to preserve it. WildlifeDirect’s work is organized round three pillars of labor:
- Authorized – Defending the integrity of protected areas, searching for justice for wildlife and other people, and campaigning to safe vital wildlife buffer zones, dispersal areas and corridors. We work to make sure that each citizen can use their proper to public participation in issues associated to wildlife and the setting.
- To vary the narrative of conservation in Africa by producing African optimistic movies, and growing the capability of African storytellers. To encourage our personal individuals, we produce Wildlife Warriors, a preferred wildlife TV collection about our wildlife heroes and heroines, and the animals that they’re saving. We intention to remodel and catalyze the wildlife movie making trade in Africa.
- Training and Outreach, via Wildlife Warriors Youngsters Golf equipment in colleges. We companion with colleges to offer youngsters hands-on information, life-changing experiences, and alternatives to make a distinction.
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