The Wilds Nature Reserve

This guide to The Wilds Nature Reserve in Johannesburg opens with the artist who saved it once being arrested by the very city that owns it, for building an unauthorized wheelchair-accessible path. You'll meet James Delaney, who first wandered these overgrown, reputedly dangerous slopes around 2014, and Thulani Nkomo, the laborer who worked alongside him for three years clearing decades of dead wood. It follows the volunteers and painted animal sculptures that followed, up to the giraffe now standing over the lawn.