One man’s 8,500km mission to save jumbos in Kenya one step at a time

Jimmy Justus Nyamu in a walk accompanied by First Lady Margaret Kenyatta. Nyamu is nursing blisters after concluding a 3,200-kilometre round trip that took him to Tanzania and Uganda in 126 days in a bid to save the jumbos. (PHOTO: COURTESY)

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” —Gautama Buddha, founder of Buddhism.

The spirit of this quote best captures the relentless struggle by a Kenyan conservationist to save the elephant.