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Michael Werikhe
Michael Werikhe was one of Africa's greatest conservation heroes of all time. He was from Kenya and dedicated his life to saving Kenya's black rhinoceros. I heard him speak at a Rhino Conservation Conference in 1990 at the San Diego Zoo. I will never forget his story of how he walked across Kenya asking people to donate what they could to help the rhino. Even the poorest people he met wanted to help by giving what few coins they could spare. So often we focus on getting the rich to help with conservation and forget that all people everywhere have a stake, care about our earth, and should not be forgotten when it comes to getting them involved.