From Crisis to Collaboration with Paula Kahumbu: Paula Kahumbu is a Kenyan ecologist turned wildlife
filmmaker. She has seen first hand how local people are crucial to conservation efforts across Africa and
could see that her academic work was not helping protect species on the ground. She realised the
potential wildlife documentaries have to foster positive relationships between people and wildlife and the
benefit this could have in the conservation of Africa’s iconic species. Despite Africa being the focus of
many wildlife documentaries in the global north they weren’t reaching African TV channels. She made it
her mission to create wildlife and environmental films made in Kenya, filmed by Kenyan filmmakers for
Kenyan audiences. Click the image or this link to watch the film.