Jim Justus Nyamu, an elephant conservationist and researcher who’s walking across four African nations to raise awareness of the plight of the giant mammals has ‘reportedly started begun the Ugandan leg of his trip.
Nyamu, who is Kenyan, was said to have started the whole journey in Nairobi on 29 July and arrived in Uganda last Friday, having covered more than 441km (274 miles). He and his entourage will next walk to Rwanda and finally the Democratic Republic of Congo before returning to Kenya – in a journey expected to span 130 days and more than 3,600km (2,200 miles).
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“My East and Central Africa campaign walk is guided by the mission of saving the African elephants whose survival has been greatly threatened,” Nyamu wrote on Facebook on Sunday.
He is is the founder of Elephant Neighbours Centre, an organisation that works with local communities to resolve human-wildlife conflict. He stops stops regularly during his walking tour to talk to local communities about why this matters.
This is not the first time that Nyamu is walking to save wildlife. Previously, he walked for more than 18,000km (11,000 miles) across three continents as part of his Ivory Belongs to Elephants campaign.
Story was adapted from BBC.
