Ami Vitale (The Everyday Projects) Seeing through a giraffe’s eyes, Ntepes Primary School in Wamba, Samburu County, Kenya.
“After covering conflicts for almost a decade, I realized that even for wildlife and nature stories, I can
(...) bring that same sensibility into the images and show that everything is connected. The Twiga Walinzi, or ‘Giraffe Guards’, visit local schools to deliver conservation education lessons and share how they have dedicated their careers to conservation, so they may be seen as wildlife heroes and role models for Kenya’s next generation of young conservationists. Right now, giraffes are undergoing what has been referred to as a silent extinction. Current estimates are that giraffe populations across Africa have dropped 40 percent in three decades, plummeting from approximately 155,000 in the late 1980s to under 100,000 today. This is a story not just about wildlife. It’s really about all of us, our home, our future. It’s about how deeply connected we are to each other. In a world of nearly 8 billion, we need to start recognizing that we are not separate from nature. When we see ourselves as part of nature, then saving nature is really about saving ourselves.”
– Ami Vitale
