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A carer beside a sleeping rhino at Solio Rhino Orphanage, Solio Game Reserve
Conservation · Field Notes
A Night at the Orphanage

There was one thing I had wanted to do for a very long time: spend a night with the orphans. Every two hours through the night, the rhinos need their milk, and the carers keep the same routine while almost everyone else is asleep.

Solio Rhino Orphanage, KenyaMay 2026
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Chapter V · Field Notes
Field Notes · May 2026
Dudu
Leave every place a little better than you found it.
Field NotesSmall things I didn’t want to forget
Note 01 · May 2026
Dudu

For a little while, I got to wake up every morning and call myself a genet cat mum.

Note 02 · May 2026
The nights

I loved how different the place became after dark.
The same trees, somehow no longer the same place.

Solio after dark.
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