Lupita Amondi Nyong\’o is a Kenyan-Mexican academy award winning actress known to feature in movies such as 12 Years a Slave, Black Panther and the likes.
Lupita Nyong’o has met with plenty of accolades for her commitment to wildlife protection.
Nyong’o was named this year’s Wildlife Champion by WildAid, a global conservation organization with a mission to end the illegal wildlife trade and a focus on doing so by reducing demand for elephant ivory, rhino horn and other trafficked goods.
Nyong’o has been a prominent advocate for elephant conservation, traveling to Kenya with WildAid in 2015 to publicize the threat of poaching and most recently partnering with WildAid on Discovery’s best-rated series, Serengeti, which follows the lives of Tanzania’s majestic animals,” said WildAid in a press release.
The Academy Award-winning Nyong’o said elephants are a personal love and part of her heritage.
“They play an important part of African economies through tourism and it’s unthinkable that we could let them become extinct just to trade their ivory,” she added.
Lupita Nyong’o was named WildAid’s Global Elephant Ambassador in 2015, making a visit to Amboseli National Park and The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s Nairobi elephant orphanage. She also was featured in public service announcements appealing for an end to poaching.
