All Pieces for Paula Kahumbu

 
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There was a time when the Maasai in East Africa were few and the wildlife numerous. Moran, or warriors were required to hunt lions to prove their c...

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 04:55
Caption: Bashora in Amboseli, Credit: Ron Guijs
Bashora Galgalo is a 47 year old member of the Watha Tribe a minority indigenous hunter gather tribe from Kenya. He was born a hunterat Ndololo in ...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:10
Caption: Silverback Kabirizi, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Fewer than 800 Mountain Gorillas remain making them one the world's most endangered species. For more than 20 years people around the world have be...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2012
  • Length: 11:06
Caption: At Rolfs Place, Credit: http://rolfsplace.tumblr.com/
Rolf came to Kenya in 1973 in search of "Real Africa" and he found it. Few people know that Rolf is now a proud Kenyan citizen. I interviewed him a...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 13:28
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I'm sitting in a landrover with 46 year old Soila Sayialel - the car is surrounded by over 50 docile elephants grazing in Amboseli National Park. I...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2012
  • Length: 14:44
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On the 22nd of July 2011, witnessed by Africa’s top elephant conservationists, the Kenya Government burned 5 tons of ivory worth 15 million dollars...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: New born, Credit: Andrew Kahumbu
A team of Kenyans visit Horsey Sound on the Norfolk coast, England, to discover the joys and rude sounds of seals.

  • Added: Jul 26, 2011
  • Length: 05:18
Caption: Catching the sacred bull, Credit: Peter Greste
Every 10 to 15 years the Masai tribe in Kenya perform one of their most spectacular ceremonies, "The Eating of Meat Ceremony" It marks the end of m...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 11:36
Caption: Esmond Martin, Credit: Paula Kahujmbu
Over 260 rhino's have been killed in South Africa for their horns this year. That's double the number killed in 2009. Most shocking is that it's no...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2010
  • Length: 09:07
Caption: Esmond Martin, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Recent research reveals that 60 tons of mammoth ivory from Russia is going going to China every year. Conservationists are alarmed that it is stoki...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2010
  • Length: 11:59
Caption: Stuart Pimm and Paula Kahumbu
Planet Earth is losing biodiversity at an unprecedented rate. Is it too late for us to do anything about it? Stuart Pimm visits the Masai Mara in K...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 20:22
Caption: SAfari ant
A conversation between David Inoue and Dino Martins about the value of African insects to the worlds favourite things. Without bugs there would be ...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 04:49
Caption: Mass of maggots
One of the most disgusting creatures is in fact one of the most useful. Join Paula Kahumbu and Dino Martins on a smelly journey of discovery.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2010
  • Length: 03:29
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Wildebeest concentration, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Paula Kahumbu takes you to the Masai Mara to witness the spectacle of thousands of wildebeest plunging into the crocodile infested Mara river Over...

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  • Added: Jul 25, 2010
  • Length: 05:08
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Migrating wildebeest
Plans to construct a commercial highway across the Serengeti National Park will bring an end to one of the worlds greatest spectacles, the wildebee...

  • Added: Jul 04, 2010
  • Length: 08:35
Caption: Samburu men , Credit: Peter Greste
A campfire debate led by WildlifeDirects Director Paula Kahumbu with entomologist Dino martins, mammologist Judith Mbau and local Samburu man Sammy...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 22:00
Caption: Kerosene lamp, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Poor people living in African countries are feeling the brunt of global climate change even though it is believed that most Africans cause hardly a...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2009
  • Length: 03:54
Caption: Paralysed lion
Carbofuran an agricultural pesticide is killing Kenya's lions. Now banned in USA due to the dangers it poses to users, consumers and the environmen...

Bought by WRNC-LP and KRUA


  • Added: Nov 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Recording Daniel, Credit: Peter Greste
Living on Mt Suswa, the crater of the largest volcano in the Great Rift Valley, 15 year old Daniel, a goat herder, only sees aircraft flying overhe...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 03:34
Caption: Sunflowers shade cabbages, Credit: Paula Kahumbu
Reformed criminals convert a garbage dump into a lush organic farm in Africa's largest slum, Kibera in Nairobi. Podcast created on site by Joshua ...

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  • Added: Oct 29, 2009
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1