The old mod of this sub had been inactive for 2 years. I was only able to change the look of the sub before not actually moderate it. But I am now top mod so I can look after the sub properly.

Update as I'm watching the town hall

Lots of crowdfunding support to keep WE going

Lots of new viewers and traffic

Working on a system to get personalized notes out to supporters, next few days

Rolling out dedication drives in the next few days

Most important news, broadcast are going to keep going until the end of april, now through May

Licensed some content (bloodlines) to natgeo sounds pretty lucrative

Talking about pandemic, SA defined them as essential as a broadcaster. They can do more than stay to the property during the lockdown. But not allowing anyone in or out of djuma

At some point they are going to move people in and out of camp

Will be going onto chitwa chitwa for drives

Will be increasing distance between guide and animals

Tristan is going to return. Will be doing some stuff on Instagram (WE IG), short live shows about photography. He will be selling some artwork there

Hugh growth in viewership, over 13k concurrent viewers on sunset drives

Graham has been talking and selling the WE product to any media outlet willing to listen

1.1m unique viewers in April double number the whole of march

Each safari get over 100k views across all platforms, 4x over what it had been in January

US has always been the biggest market

SA viewer growth is up 15x and now double that of US viewing (what had doubled) SA is currently under a highly restrictive lockdown right now. Think this growth was due to a teacher and whatsapp messages

New viewers are watching as much as preexisting audience. On average people watched for abotu 20 minutes.

WE Kids: Big growth, 100 registrations/day for kids sessions. More request in first 10 days of april than usual in the entire year

Exciting announcement with old friend in Sydney building out something at Toronga Zoo, more coming

Tide has turned for WE. Incoming tide, not out of danger yet but it's looking better. There will be some live drives out of Kenya (not WE content)

Virtual tourism is taking off right now

Proud to announce, ecotraining partnership (Tayla working there now as instructor) WE hopes to do safaris from Ecotraining camps

New location will be in lowveld, Karongwe, partner with ecotraining. TAYLA IS COMING BACK!!!! Don't know exactly when

Wants to get back to the Mara, politically complicated but working on it

Still need a couple of revenue generating deals to close, then another feed into daily drive

Revenue deals look close, real close

Going to the Kalahari, Tswalu reserve. New biome, had broadcast there before in like 2012 following meerkats shooting in 3d broadcasting in 2d. Going back to follow meerkats.

All this stuff is adds, not taking away anything.

This was about 30 minutes of updates and where I peeled off.

Notes from town-hall 3:

Working a deal to do a non-exclusive 2 hour sunrise show for China (Sounds like a lucrative deal)

Safari Live is going to be returning to the Mara

Boat safari in Botswana is on tap

Another underwater feed, from the Red Sea. In studio experts discussing feed. Sounds like PD Live concept. Will use a ROV and divers will not be talking underwater.

Moving out or back from the djuma control room to joberg.

Guides will keep being freelance. Some guides from the past will return and there will be new guides. Some current guides could be seen less as they are moving into new ventures on their own.

From almost closed to expanding, is that a concern? Revenue seems to be coming in again from new sources and new clients.

Most chatters are most worried about the guides. James will be back.

WildEarth seems to be back on its feet.

No concerns about Chinese content censors.

Two daily youtube safaris are not dependent on the china deal

That's it up to the 25 minute mark of the town hall. If you watched beyond that, add some more discussion points.

Maybe it's their hilarious noises, the way they dash around the place, their funny name... or maybe it was just that time they were going nuts and screeching at karula with a young hosana and xongile while james provided his usual excellent commentary (as seen here), but whatever it is they just make me laugh. The funny little things.

Hello everyone, I wanted to apologize for not being so active here, the last few months. I've been dealing with some pretty serious health issues, so it's taken some of my SL time away from me. Moving forward, I'm definitely going to be making this subreddit more active.

In other exciting news, I received a message from a staff member from WildEarth, and they will hopefully be joining us here soon. I'm hoping to be able to set up some AMA's within the next few months.

As always, thank you for your continued support here, and your support to Wild Earth. I think I speak for us all in that we're very lucky to have the opportunity to see the African wildlife twice daily. Happy safari-ing!

In case you haven't been able to watch: Tomorrow (2/20) after sunset , Tristan will be doing a special Fireside Chat Tribute for Hukumuri. It will be open for everyone and, apparently, on every platform.

I'm glad Tristan is back to do it; I can't really think of anyone better for it.

With all the fallout from the budget problems and normal comings and goings, it is now possible to book various safaris with Tayla, James and Tristan. And I may just do that but so hard to choose.