“Conservation is in my blood”, says Ludovika Malemba, one of three women on a 14-member scout team with the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya
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Ludovika Malemba knows the rugged hills and dusty tracks of LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary like the back of her hand. She’s patrolled many kilometers as a wildlife scout of the communityowned conservancy since its establishment in 2001.
A native of the vast wildlife-rich landscape in Taita- Taveta connecting Kenya’s Tsavo conservation area and Mkomazi National Park in Tanzania, she found her calling close to home. “I really like the work of rangers”, she says, “I was a game scout when I was in primary school — conservation is in my blood.”