Sandwiched between wildlife parks rich with internationally awe-inspiring animals, and the Great Rift Valley where some the oldest human remains have been found, the agricultural landscapes of central Kenya’s Kikuyu Forest Escarpment require a subtler eye to appreciate. It is not a story of another Lucy, nor of ostriches and zebras, but it may be the story that links those two, touching as it does on the necessary overlaps of human culture and the survival of biodiversity.