Feeding the Creatures

Karen Paolillo and friends

Karen Paolillo lives with her husband in a cottage they built by the Turgwe River in Zimbabwe. Twenty years ago, she founded the Turgwe Hippo Trust, and she's been working to help and, in may cases, save those and other creatures ever since. This year, due to another drought, she is actually trucking food in to help them get through the season (story, very cute video): http://www.care2.com/causes/woman-trucks-in-food-to-save-african-herds-from-starvation.html
   Here's a fascinating, more in-depth story about the couple and their life as conservationists in Africa: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hippos.html