If you see a group of primary school learners quietly walking in single-file through a dry riverbed or gathered in a group closely inspecting something on the ground in the Daan Viljoen Game Reserve, then you have probably encountered a Khomas Environmental Education Programme (KEEP) excursion. Operating from our home-base in Windhoek, the Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF) is the only organisation in the world that concentrates solely on the conservation and management of giraffe in the wild throughout Africa. Although GCF currently operates in 15 African countries, we realised some years ago that many primary school learners in our own Khomas Region around Windhoek have never visited a national park or even seen a wild animal. This sparked our determination to make a difference by designing and implementing an environmental education programme in 2016. Based on participation numbers, KEEP is the largest interactive field-based environmental education programme in Namibia. Since inception, the GCF KEEP team has hosted over 9,000 Grade 3 and 4 primary school learners from the Khomas Region – 75% of these from often under-resourced government schools. We developed KEEP as a means of reconnecting young Namibians with nature and inspiring them to care for their environment. Our programme complements the national school curriculum by taking relevant topics from the classroom out into nature. When they are out in the bush with our KEEP team, children can have fun while learning about the ways of the wild and the role they can play in caring for the environment. An increased awareness and greater understanding of the environment will open the minds of these young Namibians and encourage their curiosity about environmental issues in their own communities. It may also change their behaviour in relation to the environment around their own homes, which, in the long-term, will improve their living conditions.