His father founded an insurance business and, as he established new offices around southern Africa, Lawrence was brought up in a series of small towns in rural Rhodesia, Zambia, Malawi and finally Zululand, South Africa.Īnthony followed his father into the insurance business and later worked in property development. Lawrence Anthony was born on Septemin Johannesburg, where his grandfather, a miner from Berwick-upon-Tweed, had emigrated in the 1920s to work in the gold mines. As well as creating two new African game reserves, he ran a private reserve of his own where he acquired his nickname after rescuing a herd of rogue Elephants destined to be shot. In his native South Africa, Anthony was a key figure in promoting the concept of joining tribal lands to game reserves in order to give remote tribal communities a vested interest in conservation. Lawrence Anthony, who died aged 61, was a South African conservationist, known as “The Elephant Whisperer”. Lawrence Anthony – The Elephant Whisperer
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