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Listen first on BBC Sounds It's 320 nautical miles

about 650 kilometres from Johannesburg to Tuvalu airport

and we've been flying now for just over an hour and where we are now

it's much emptier more desert it's just this haze sitting across the land but you can

definitely feel that you're coming up to the boundaries of the Kalahari and an entirely

different experience.

The extraordinary things about lions is you hear from time to time that they're in danger,

you know, there's a worry about them.

But the fact is you put lions in an environment where they are happy and they breed like rabbits.

Oh, here's an ostrich running across the road.

Two of them.

What the speed they're doing.

Look at that.

That's phenomenal.

Yeah, I mean, what we're doing,

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