Beverly and Dereck Joubert: Spirit of the Wild

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🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The look in a lion's eye, fixated on its prey... the sound of a hyena taking down a zebra foal... the tender ministrations of an elephant. For over 40 years, the Jouberts (National Geographic Explorers) have lived in some of the most remote places in Africa, capturing on film what other humans have never seen. They are in love with each other, and with their mission: to save big cats and other wild creatures. They tell amazing stories here of their encounters with animals, their solitary existence in the bush, and the buffalo attack that almost killed them both, but strengthened their resolve. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2018

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0:00.0	I don't usually get to tell the story of a romance on this podcast, but I've got one today.
0:06.4	A romance between two people and between the two people and their work. It's also the story of brutality and survival as well
0:20.9	as collaboration and caregiving among animals in the wild.
0:26.0	Derek and Beverly Jubair have been together for over 40 years
0:31.0	and for most of them they've lived in the most remote
0:34.3	unpopulated areas of Africa filming lions and other large predators.
0:40.3	Working with these lions and hyenas we got so attached to them and they got so used to us
0:49.6	that in the low moments when there wasn't a battle going on they would sleep underneath a
0:54.5	vehicle and so we had these animals around us all the time very often we
0:59.3	we found out that we could actually sleep in our vehicle, an open vehicle, no doors, no roof, with the
1:06.5	lion sleeping underneath the vehicle and around us, and we were attuned to them getting
1:11.9	up and moving and greeting, that would wake us up and then we'd all go on the hunt
1:15.6	together. So we were embedded in a sort of war correspondent way,
1:20.6	embedded in the lion the Lion Pride.
1:22.8	Derek and Beverly Jubeer are filmmakers, conservationists,
1:27.4	and National Geographic explorers in residence.
1:30.4	And they're the subject of today's episode of what it takes, a podcast about
1:35.5	passion, vision, and perseverance from the Academy of Achievement. And if you want to know what it takes to survive being gored by an irate buffalo, stay tuned.
1:47.0	I'm Alice Winkler.
1:50.0	Adam Aye, this child is gifted. And I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
1:55.0	If you have the opportunity not a perfect opportunity and you don't take it you may never have another job.
2:01.0	It all was so clear.
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