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Dismantling poaching syndicates since 2016, the inspiration for a movie being produced by Hollywood icon Margot Robbie. 🇿🇦🦏 @saving_the_wild

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Walk with elephants. Experience the raw and unfiltered wild. Saving the Wild Safaris - Travel with Purpose.

Hosted by @jamie_savingthewild 🐘

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World Rhino Day.

Time is running out.

But look at what is still here.

Still wild. Still magnificent. Still worth fighting for.

As long as the clock is ticking, so is Saving the Wild.

Video ©️ @jamie_savingthewild

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Who is feeling that Springbok energy this morning? 😆🏆🏉🇿🇦🍾🥂

World champions South Africa beat New Zealand for a third successive weekend to win the “Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry” series 3–1, taking the last of four tests 43–28 on Saturday.

That’s a Springbok on the cup. And the curious visitor is a nyala. Both antelope, but different.

Close enough buddy, today in South Africa everybody wants to be a Springbok. 😉

To the All Blacks, thank you for showing the world the best version of the Greatest Rivalry, both on and off the field. Much respect. 🙏

Video ©️ @jamie_savingthewild

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🇿🇦🏉🇳🇿☺️ Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be at this weekend’s historic Springboks / All Blacks game.

And then I went on safari with @thisteeks. 🇳🇿 See previous post. 🐘🐾🦒✨

On day two, his lovely manager Julia told me I was going to the game with him.

Teeks had invited three guests - me, Wandile and Dawn - all Springbok supporters.

The greatest rivalries on Earth don’t have to divide us. Sometimes they bind us.

I was born and raised in Africa, but Aotearoa New Zealand became another home. I lived in NZ from 2009 to 2013, producing music festivals, before founding Saving the Wild and returning to South Africa in 2014 to work on the poaching crisis.

I still return every summer for Saving the Wild events and my whānau.

And I’ve loved seeing Kiwi icons, including Taika Waititi and SIX60, experience South Africa’s wild places between these games.

At the rugby hospitality box, Teeks introduced me to Ji, lead guitarist of SIX60.

“Are you in a band?” I asked. I vaguely recognised him.

“Yeah.”

“SIX60?”

“Yeah.”

@ji_fraser was politely bracing himself for small talk, just as my internal time machine hurtled back 16 years.

“I saw you guys tear the roof off a bar venue in Mount Maunganui in 2010!”

He laughed. “That was a long time ago.”

It was just months before @six60 exploded with the release of their breakthrough single Rise Up 2.0. They’ve been filling stadiums since 2019. 🔥🎸

Mostly we spoke about the band’s time in the wild. Beautiful memories, but harder stories too.

Since 2010, we have lost more than 10,000 rhinos to poaching. 🩸🦏

We need help. We need the endgame. We need justice.

And that is the power of bringing different worlds together, because music, like nature, knows no boundaries.

Sport is different. We want to win, but what a game! The Bokke won by just five points.

On Sunday, All Blacks captain Ardie Savea attended Dawn’s church.

They prayed for Ardie and his injured shoulder. 🙏

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“Ever since I was a boy, I dreamed of going to Africa and seeing animals in the wild. These last few days in Greater Kruger was an experience that moved me deeply.”
-Teeks

✨ Some dreams wait a lifetime for us.

In December 2023, in a twist of fate, rhino activist and @saving_the_wild founder Jamie Joseph, met New Zealand Māori soul singer and songwriter Teeks. She suggested to the global rising star that if he ever toured South Africa, he should stay a little longer and come on safari with her.

And so he did!

After wrapping up a mind-blowing South Africa tour last week, Teeks joined Jamie in Timbavati, Greater Kruger, for a few days of Motswari magic.

There was something about the coming together of two powerful energies - that which Teeks carries within him, and the ancient land receiving him.

From Teeks very first drive, with @motswari_life guide Glen behind the wheel, and Hendry in the tracker seat, the fairytale seemed to unfold before us. The kind of sightings that left even those of us who live in the wild, giddy with joy.

On the last night, on the final bend home, we stopped beside the river. The engine went quiet. The lights went out.

Above us, the Milky Way stretched across the sky, reminding us how small we are, and how deeply connected.

And in the stillness of darkness, fireflies danced around us.

“Magic,” Teeks whispered.

Perhaps that is what the wild does best. It takes the dreams we carried as children, and gives them back to us as memories we will carry for the rest of our lives.

Music ©️ @thisteeks | Through it All.

Video ©️ @jamie_savingthewild | Motswari 🇿🇦

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Back in April, Saving the Wild Safaris hosted a group of photographers at @motswari_life - and there were plenty opportunities to capture the magic of the land.

Here we come around the corner and surprise a very impressive rhino bull. Startled, but immediately settles down and carries on feeding.

This is a privilege in South Africa where the rhino crisis rages on. It is a privilege to see rhinos so relaxed and living their best life.

Thanks very much to @timbavati_nr anti poaching. ♥️🦏🙏

@jamie_savingthewild is currently at Motswari hosting one of the most talented people on earth, and the rhino sightings, absolutely everything, has just been exceptional. Such a special time with all.

🌟 Watch this space for the big reveal 🌟

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“When Saving the Wild hosts groups on safari in South Africa, we always return to Motswari in the Timbavati. Its conservation ethic runs deep, reaching back to the pioneers who helped shape Greater Kruger.” – @jamie_savingthewild

Conservation is measured not by words, but by decisions that leave a lasting legacy.

This year, as @motswari_life celebrates fifty years of tourism and conservation, we honour a family whose commitment has extended far beyond tourism.

In 1993, Paul Geiger was instrumental in removing the fences between the Timbavati and Kruger National Park, helping restore one of Africa’s most important connected wilderness landscapes. That decision still benefits rhinos, elephants, lions, wild dogs, and countless other species.

This legacy continues through his daughter, Marion Geiger, whose stewardship of Motswari reflects the same enduring commitment to conservation. Ten years ago, she co-founded Motswari’s conservation initiative, @rhinodisharmony , to help ensure the next generation inherits a world where rhinos still roam free.

Conservation is not a feeling. It is a way of life. Wherever we are in the world, we can choose to support the people and places that work every day to protect our shared natural heritage.

Saving the Wild Safaris - Travel with Purpose.

Video © Motswari | Timbavati, Greater Kruger, South Africa. 🇿🇦 🦏 🐆🐘🦒🐾

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Mana Pools 🇿🇼 Trying to negotiate safe passage with an angry hippo. It took about fifteen minutes, but he did eventually calm down, and then we slowly backed off.

Filmed a few days ago by @jamie_savingthewild.

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The greatest superpower in the world is public opinion. 💫

PODCAST (link in bio): @jamie_savingthewild talks to @gabby_sykora about how the future of rhinos in South Africa is not down to anti poaching - we already have the best on the frontline - but rather it’s down to advocacy and rule of law.

Are you going to use your voice to help save a species from extinction? ♥️🦏 Change.org/rhino-laws

#RhinoLaws #OurKindSong @youngwildlife_photographers_sa @wildeyesa

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Last June I had the great privilege of spending time with @saving_the_wild and a team involved in intel driven investigations on the frontline of the Rhino Crisis in Greater Kruger, South Africa.

With @thepowerinusproject we feel that being on the ground changes how you understand the work.
It’s not abstract, it’s not distant.
In Grand Kruger we learnt it’s people, showing up every day to protect something they believe is worth everything.

The power of the Rangers, vets, pilots, intel teams, conservationists, everyone who spends their life fighting for the protection of Rhinos was a power we will not forget the feeling of. Overwhelming proof that people live everyday standing for our kind of future, our kind of love, our kind of power, and we should too.

July 31st, World Ranger Day, my single Our Kind is available on all platforms, donating 100% of its streaming royalties to Saving The Wild.

Stand with those that are doing the real work and fighting for the existence of these beautiful animals and the biodiversity of our planet, by joining the chorus.
Share ‘Our Kind’ with your reels, your posts, your people, let a bigger purpose flood into mainstream media so we can get the worlds attention.

Be the Chorus.
Be Our Kind.

Use #ourkindsong so we can amplify the voices of conservation.

OUR KIND OUT NOW ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS

Cover Artwork by @harryskeggs

#music #release #conservation #worldrangerday

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On this World Ranger Day, we’re honoured to share a very special episode of the podcast with @jamie_savingthewild, founder of @saving_the_wild

Rangers are the first line of defence for our wildlife, but conservation doesn’t end in the field. It also happens through advocacy, education and the stories we choose to tell.

In this episode, Jamie and I dive into the power of using our voices for wildlife, the realities of the rhino poaching crisis, the laws that protect one of Africa’s most iconic species, and why advocacy has never been more important. We also explore the role young people can play in creating real, lasting change for conservation.

Today also marks the release of Our Kind by @andersonrociomusic in support of World Ranger Day. As our community shares their own wildlife stories through this powerful soundtrack, we hope this conversation reminds you that every photograph, every voice and every act of advocacy can make a difference.

To every ranger protecting our wild places: thank you. Happy World Ranger Day!

🎧 Link to the podcast in my bio

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Today, on World Ranger Day, we invite the world to become part of something bigger.

Our Kind by @andersonrociomusic — a Power in Us X Saving the Wild collaboration — is now live on Spotify, Instagram, Apple Music and all major streaming platforms.

This song is dedicated to every ranger, investigator, pilot, vet, activist and conservationist who stands between nature and its greatest threats.

Here’s how you can help: 
🎵 Stream the song. 🎵 Add it to your playlists. 🎵 Use “Our Kind” as the soundtrack to your next reel inspired by nature.

Together, let’s fill Instagram with stories of hope, courage and the extraordinary people and wildlife that unite us.

Be the chorus. Be Our Kind.

Use the hashtag #OurKindSong and tag @saving_the_wild in your reels so we can share them throughout the campaign for the rest of the year.

@thepowerinusproject ♥️🦏🇿🇦⚖️

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/andersonrocio/our-kind

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