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Paula Kahumbu: Hands Off Our Elephants

Kenyan campaigner Paula Kahumbu on her fight for wildlife. How British businessman Mark Weingard escaped three disasters. And Sheryl Crow on a new direction in her life and music.

Paula Kahumbu has devoted her life to saving African wildlife. Brought up on a farm on the outskirts of Nairobi, she tells us how her childhood neighbour became her mentor in conservation. Paula is now the chief executive of the Kenya-based Wildlife Direct charity.

Mark Weingard is a British businessman who has cheated death three times. On 11 September 2001, he was late for a meeting in the World Trade Center; a year later his fiancΓ©e was killed in the Bali bombings; and he was on a beach in Thailand in 2004, when the tsunami swept in.

Multi-million selling American singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow has overcome breast cancer and adopted a baby boy in recent years. Now having moved to Nashville, the home of American country music, she talks about its influence on her latest record.

Picture: Paula Kahumbu

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55 minutes

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Fri 14 Feb 2014 03:06GMT

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  • Thu 13 Feb 2014 12:06GMT
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  • Fri 14 Feb 2014 03:06GMT

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