I have leadership experience in mentoring or interpreting nature, so i have a dream of making my own kids conservation program in my village. just to make an understanding of how important nature is.

The great concern to me is that Bees are not understood as wild animals. In order to interact with a wild animal, one would think that one would need to understand the animal in its wild state in order to work with that wild state and not against it, so that the animal is constantly supported and healthy. That, however, is not the case with Bees. Bees have never been studied in the wild. Wild honeybees are native only to Africa, Asia and Europe. And yet humans have taken them to all continents of the world to pollinate crops and make honey for human consumption with no underlying understanding of their true nature, their needs or the complexity of their natural ecosystems. The existing narrative about bees has emerged from their study and exploitation for industry not from the wisdom of the wild bee as an essential component of Nature and all biodiversity.

Bees need to be understood as the wild animals they are. The existing narrative needs to change and reflect them as they truly are, not as they are when managed by humans. Beekeepers and the agricultural industry have agendas that prohibit them from being able to understand the bee as a wild animal. Wild Bees need protection, understanding and space to be who they are. And as with everything in Nature, protecting space for wild bees will protects all the other beings both large and small who coexist in their ecosystem.

The mowana (baobab) trees throughout Botswana are struggling to survive and thrive because of human impact on elephant migration leading to overfeeding on these generous but sensitive trees. This species is essential to the ecosystem and needs to be protected while respecting and honoring the elephants.

This project brings together an organic solution created through research, indigenous practices and ancestral knowledge and an education program that I’ve spent years developing for local schools. By training local young people to be able to use this approach to protect mowana trees, we will not only help the trees and elephants thrive better together but also plant the seeds for a new generation of local conservationists.

To become self-sustaining in our conservation and education program we want to share what we are doing and learning with a broader population through conservation tourism. We want to offer an authentic, local conservation safari experience rooted in our traditional ways and understanding.