The duo of Marumo Nene, a South African
Species Monitor with the Wildlife ACT and Sheila Funnell, a Kenyan Research
Manager at the Grevy’s Zebra Trust are guests on the show sponsored by
telecommunications solutions provider, Globacom.
Nene, who hails from Hlabisa in Kwa-Zulu
Natal, became part of the Wildlife ACT in 2008. There, she works as a Species
Monitor specifically in charge of wild dogs which are nearly extinct in the
country.
She had earlier been part of an Alien Plant
Removal project in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Game Reserve. Trained as a Community
Guide, Nene worked as an assistant on the African Wild Dog monitoring project
and as a Community Environmental Educator.
Funnell on her own part believes that the
conservation of zebras is a precursor to the sustainability of the livelihoods
of the Samburu people of Kenya. The special Grevy’s zebra species are important
in the local culture where they are deemed to lead the way to water during droughts,
alert herders and livestock to the presence of predators. Their presence is
also believed to symbolise the imminence of rains.
African Voices Changemakers will be on air
from Saturday 9.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on DSTV Channel 401 and Sunday at 3.30
a.m., 6.30 a.m., 11.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. The last repeat of the show will come
up on Monday at 4.30 a.m.
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