Animals Guardians

“Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.”⁠
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This is a striking example of how to look at things differently.⁠
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Sometimes, taking a systemic view of complex situations is extremely helpful. This is an extremely important way to reach the root cause of issues.⁠
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Exercising about changing viewpoint and going up in terms of observation level is quite an important skill to better understand our world.⁠
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Are you practising?

Two rhinos. A mother and her daughter. When they are gone, that is the end of the northern white rhino.

Najin and Fatu live at Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. Najin is about 37 and Fatu about 26, against a normal lifespan of around 40. Both are female. There are no males left anywhere.

Zacharia Mutai is the head keeper. James Mwenda became a principal caretaker in about 2014. They feed them, wash them and sit with them, and armed workers guard the pair 24 hours a day.

Mwenda has a simple way of saying why he does it.

"These animals deserve to exist," he said.

Scientists are trying to build embryos from stored material and carry them in southern white rhino surrogates. It has never been done with this species.

Until then there are two of them, and a handful of men who know them by name.