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As we speak, we honor the life and legacy of Iain Douglas-Hamilton, one of many world’s most influential elephant conservationists. At simply 23, he performed the primary in-depth scientific research of elephant social conduct in Tanzania, pioneering analysis that remodeled world understanding of those clever, deeply social beings. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he was additionally the primary to show the dimensions of Africa’s ivory-poaching disaster, serving to result in the 1989 world ban on the ivory commerce.In 1993, Douglas-Hamilton based Save the Elephants, revolutionizing conservation with GPS monitoring, long-term inhabitants research, and progressive human–elephant coexistence applications. His management helped launch the Elephant Disaster Fund and strengthened worldwide efforts to guard weak elephant populations. His work earned lots of conservation’s highest honors, together with the Indianapolis Prize and a CBE.Douglas-Hamilton’s ardour for elephants reached hundreds of thousands by way of his books Battle for the Elephants and Among the many Elephants, in addition to quite a few documentaries, together with The Household That Lives with Elephants, Ivory Wars, Africa’s Elephant Kingdom, The Secret Lifetime of Elephants, This Wild Life, and A Life Amongst Elephants. Throughout media, science, and coverage, he formed how the world sees and protects elephants.“My dream could be for human beings to come back into stability with their atmosphere, to cease destroying nature.” – Iain Douglas-HamiltonRelaxation In Heaven, Iain.
As we speak, we honor the life and legacy of Iain Douglas-Hamilton, one of many world’s most influential elephant conservationists. At simply 23, he performed the primary in-depth scientific research of elephant social conduct in Tanzania, pioneering analysis that remodeled world understanding of those clever, deeply social beings. Within the Nineteen Seventies, he was additionally the primary to show the dimensions of Africa’s ivory-poaching disaster, serving to result in the 1989 world ban on the ivory commerce.
In 1993, Douglas-Hamilton based Save the Elephants, revolutionizing conservation with GPS monitoring, long-term inhabitants research, and progressive human–elephant coexistence applications. His management helped launch the Elephant Disaster Fund and strengthened worldwide efforts to guard weak elephant populations. His work earned lots of conservation’s highest honors, together with the Indianapolis Prize and a CBE.
Douglas-Hamilton’s ardour for elephants reached hundreds of thousands by way of his books Battle for the Elephants and Among the many Elephants, in addition to quite a few documentaries, together with The Household That Lives with Elephants, Ivory Wars, Africa’s Elephant Kingdom, The Secret Lifetime of Elephants, This Wild Life, and A Life Amongst Elephants. Throughout media, science, and coverage, he formed how the world sees and protects elephants.
“My dream could be for human beings to come back into stability with their atmosphere, to cease destroying nature.” – Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Relaxation In Heaven, Iain.
