Our Wild World

Raabia Hawa is one of the most visible and vocal environmental warriors of our time. From billboards to film to radio she carries the voice for rangers who put their lives on the line to protect elephants. Forming Care For The Wild (Kenya), Walk With Rangers, and this year founding Ulinzi Africa Foundation, Raabia is fully active in working to end poaching and the demand for ivory. Growing up in the wake of the most disastrous levels of elephant poaching in Kenya, her quest was to fully understand how ranger units operate, and she jumped right in to the action. As a well-known media personality presenting on two major local radio stations in Kenya, Raabia went from the urban landscape to roughing it out in the wild, to dangerous field missions chasing armed poachers, to rescuing poached animals, Raabia’s efforts have raised awareness about of the lives led by rangers and the state of poaching – first to Kenyans, and now the world.