Field notes from Nissa's own years in the conservancies, on patience, conservation and where his own story began.
Hours of stillness for thirty seconds of grace, and why those seconds are worth every one of the hours.
Big cats were my first love in this work, and the leopard schools you fastest. She rests through the heat, unhurried, and the only thing you can do is match her pace: cut the engine, watch the ears, and let the bush forget you're there. That is the whole craft, and it is the same patience I bring to every sighting I share with a guest.
What guests learn when they ride out with the anti-poaching team, and why I bring them along.
In the evenings, guests can join the anti-poaching rangers on their patrol, sharing stories and understanding their way of life. Revenue from tourism on Borana goes back to local communities and their livelihoods, protecting the animals here for the generations after us, and an evening with the rangers is the clearest way I know to show a guest exactly how.
The forest that raised me, and the long road from a radio at Lewa to a guide’s seat at Borana.
I was born and brought up as what we call a bushbaby, in the Mukogodo Forest of northern Kenya, walking seven kilometres each way to school for eight years. That walk, and the weekends I spent herding in the forest, taught me to read the land before I ever called it work. Everything since, Lewa, Sirikoi, Borana, and now Nissa Safaris, traces back to that forest.
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