A leopard in your pocket
Item Number: 8
Category: Jewelry
Retail Value: ZAR R600.00
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MRJ Jewellery
Description
A heartfelt tribute to a beloved with leopard with multiple identities... Kulani, born in 2017 to the legendary one-eyed Kulua. Kulua, a true survivor, raised her cubs in the heart of the Hoedspruit Wildlife Estate. But Kulani... his story is more complex. He's well known far beyond HWE, a leopard with multiple identities. But who is he, really? ... He is also Xivati of Rietspruit Game Reserve and Mulhuri of Blue Canyon Conservation! Yes, the very same leopard was tragically hit by a train last year. He had many offspring. This reveals he's part of a remarkable family: Mulhuri himself is now confirmed to be a sibling to Ntsakelo, Mafu, and Mbilu, all born to Kulua! Marion, a fine jeweler artisan, owner of MRJ L'atelier, has crafted this exquisite keyrings in honor of this remarkable individual who lived amongst us for 13 years before dying tragically.
Additional Information
Your investment directly supports our mission: To effectively conserve leopards in South Africa by empowering stakeholders through practical scientific recommendations, enabled by formal research, citizen science, novel technologies, and proactive collaboration. Every bid fuels our most critical initiative: the Road Ecology Project, implementing life-saving mitigation measures against road mortality. It also enables the final deployment of the Ingwe Mobile App—the first AI-integrated citizen science tool for faster leopard identification—and helps grow our capacity for evidence-based conservation.