Chyulu Hills: A Hidden Paradise for Africa's Most Rare Wildlife

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:14:12 +0000

"Big Life in the Wild" (Season 1, Episode 2)
Chyulu Hills, Kenya:

An adventure that starts in Nairobi, Kenya and ends at a wildlife ranger base in a remote region of the Chyulu Hills. The Good Road team joins a convoy of land rovers and motor cycles on this grand expedition.
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Summary:
Earl and Craig embark on an adventure that starts in Nairobi, Kenya and ends at a wildlife
ranger base in a remote region of the Chyulu Hills. The Good Road team joins a convoy of land
rovers and motorcycles helmed by TED Fellow Erik Hersman and his fellow BRCK co-founders
on this grand expedition. BRCK is a for-profit tech company based in Nairobi with the mission to
provide free internet access across the continent of Africa. BRCK is attempting to solve all kinds
of different problems and create new opportunities for anyone in remote areas ignored by big

internet service providers. First stop on the expedition was the Big Life Foundation HQ, an Anti-
Poaching organization where we met up with Craig Millar. Craig was made famous through the documentary film The Ivory Game, but, more importantly, he is an anti-poaching security chief
for the Big Life Foundation. Flying a prop plane to work and chasing elephant poachers is
Craig’s daily routine. Craig toured us through the park which led to a memorable encounter with
the world’s largest elephant, Tim. After getting a sense of the work Big Life Foundation does,
Craig and Earl follow BRCK to a remote anti-poaching camp where rangers from the Big Life
Foundation and Kenyan Wildlife Service track animals and monitor poachers eager to kill and
profit from elephants and black rhinos. The BRCK team installs hardware and software to
provide the rangers fast and accessible internet access where it had been impossible before.
After going on patrol with the rangers there is word of an incident and the arrest of a poacher.

Craig and Earl discover that the issue of poaching isn’t as clean cut as you might imagine. It is
a matter of life and death not just for the animals but also for the poor, desperate farmers
protecting their farms or just trying to eat. The episode concludes at sunset on a plain with
Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance with “sundowners” (A kenyan tradition the whole group can
get behind). Earl, Craig, the BRCK team and the rangers chat about what is possible through
combining modern technology with anti-poaching efforts in the information age.

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THE GOOD ROAD offers a compelling look at the messy and complicated business of global charity. Hosts Earl Bridges and Craig Martin- longtime philanthropy veterans, globe-trotters, and best friends-set off around the world to places where people are doing good. Sometimes that good is several plane rides away and sometimes just off your own daily commute. Border camps for refugees, 3rd world Neonatal Intensive Care Units and fully armed anti-poaching teams with Land Rovers are only some of the impossible situations they explore in Season One.