Twenty years after he first visited Africa, Boyd returned to the scene of his initial infatuation: National Geographic Explorers in Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert's Selinda Camp and lodges, near Botswana's Okavango Delta. The Jouberts have expanded their land holdings in the area to help protect the African elephants and cats that they love. "This is not something you do on a weekend. You dedicate your life to it," explains Dereck. Beverly says that they now have 7,000 elephants on site that, seven years ago when the Jouberts expanded their land and banned hunting, never would have come out to be seen by people during the day: "They were petrified."
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