March 19th, 2021 Dear Colleagues, Dear Friends, It is my pleasure to announce the Commendations of Oganes Arustamov and Wim Hof as Giraffe-Heroes. Especially during the strange times we are living in both of them offer a method to cope with the challenge. We had two somewhat critical voices regarding the nominations, one for each of the candidates. As for the rather young Oganes (b. 1991) the question was whether there is ‘already enough in the plate’ to justify a commendation – as for Wim Hof (b. 1959 and with ‘a lot in the plate’) the question was about the Read More
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Wim Hof and the Kenya Garden of Eden (from Wim’s blog)
HOW ARE WE HELPING? Our project work consists of 3 main aspects: 1) Creating awareness about the importance of life in harmony with nature. 2) Restoring life in nature: opening up migration paths, creating clean water sources, removing fences, planting trees. 3) Conserving life in nature: establishing a sustainable and community-owned Nature Conservancy. Our main priority is to open up migration paths for wildlife and livestock. Our strategy is to restore and enlarge the migration corridors by creating community water wells. To get legal access to the water wells, it is mandatory for all landowners to remove their fences to Read More