Filming at Somkhanda was more than documenting a reserve; it was witnessing a vision of renewal. Where one might expect fences and fear, we found a living dialogue between people and wilderness, a land learning to breathe again through its own guardians. We were welcomed by the Gumbi community, whose ancestral ground became a sanctuary for rhinos, elephants, and lions. Each patrol, each dawn call of a ranger, carried the weight of history, a story of reclamation after loss and of courage quietly lived, not proclaimed. Somkhanda is not just about wildlife. It’s about belonging, about a people redefining what it means to protect, to coexist, and to restore balance where it was once broken. Healing begins when land and people remember each other. And Somkhanda is that memory made wild again.