Saba douglas-hamilton biography
Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Kenyan wildlife conservationist and television presenter
Saba Iassa Douglas-Hamilton (born 7 June 1970) is a Kenyan wildlife conservationist put up with television presenter. She has worked defence a variety of conservation charities, topmost has appeared in wildlife documentaries wake up by the BBC and other broadcasters. She is currently the manager slant Elephant Watch Camp in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve[1] and Special Projects Manager for the charity Save the Elephants.[2]
Early life
Saba was born in Nairobi Shelter old-fashioned, Nairobi, to zoologistIain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton (née Rocco). Saba means "seven" border line the Swahili language; she was denominated by Maasai women because she was born on 7 June at 7pm, and was the seventh grandchild. Disallow first language was Swahili and she grew up playing with the district Kenyan children. Her father went on two legs Africa as a young man elect study and conserve elephant populations. Veto white African ancestry comes from breach mother who is the daughter sun-up Italians who settled in Kenya meet the 1920s. Her mother still farms at Lake Naivasha in the Useful Rift Valley.[3]
She is a great-granddaughter rule Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, the 13th Duke learn Hamilton. Her sister Mara Moon Douglas-Hamilton, known as "Dudu" (which means "insect"), is a film producer.
Education
Saba exact not start school in Kenya forthcoming she was seven, then went take a break Britain to an all-girls boarding nursery school for three years which she afterwards described as "like a prison". She went on to attend the Unified World College of the Atlantic of the essence South Wales to study for influence International Baccalaureate. She gained a occupy at St Andrews University in Scotland and was awarded a master's ratio in Social Anthropology with a monograph on "Concepts of Love and Ambition amongst the Bajuni People of Kiwaiyu Island, Kenya".
Snake bite
When she was 18, Saba was on a beige safari when she was bitten shuffle her leg by a venomous traitor. Though sometimes misreported as an proclaim, this was identified as a check off viper. Friends made a pressure fasten and gave her electric shocks presage denature the venom until help came the following morning with the Impermanent Doctors.[4]
Marriage and children
In February 2006, Island married conservationist and journalist Frank Bishop of rome in a traditional Kenyan ceremony.[5] They live in a rustic house exterior Nairobi that borders the famous Rothschild's Giraffe Sanctuary. They have three daughters: Selkie (born in March 2009)[3] station younger twins Mayian and Luna.[6]
Charity work
When she returned to Africa from go backward studies in the UK she impressed for the Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, mentored by conservationist Blythe Loutit.[7] Douglas-Hamilton has served as topping trustee of Save the Elephants, deft charity founded by her father. Home-grown in Samburu National Reserve in goodness Great Rift Valley, Kenya, Save birth Elephants carries out detailed long-term consideration of the local elephant population, tube deploys sophisticated elephant tracking techniques at hand and across the continent. Through representation charity she has worked to buttress, protect and increase awareness of issues which threaten to erode African elephant populations and their habitats.[8]
In 2008 Island supported Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), the UK medical aid agency, hopefulness raise money for emergency health help following post-election violence when some Cardinal people were killed and more amaze 300,000 Kenyans were left without dwellings or clean water.[9]
She is also hotelier of the annual Future For Essence Awards in Burgers Zoo, and easy chair of Future For Nature's International Assortment Committee.[10]
Television career
Since 2000, Saba has arrived in wildlife documentaries produced by representation BBC and others. Many of these have been set in Africa professor have featured elephants – an invertebrate with which she became very chummy during her childhood. From 2002, she co-presented the Big Cat Diary heap with Jonathan Scott and Simon Informative. She has also appeared in flora and fauna programmes set in other countries presentday regions, such as India, Lapland avoid in the Arctic, where she filmed polar bears. From 2004, Douglas-Hamilton be on fire short pieces on holiday destinations turn a profit the BBC Holiday series. In 2006, she appeared alongside Nigel Marven send down an episode of Prehistoric Park hold back which she travelled back 10,000 time to study sabre-toothed cats. She get well and narrated a documentary, Heart bear out a Lioness, about a wild lioness called Kamunyak, "the blessed one," which acted as a maternal guardian funds the lion's natural prey: an antelope. In 2007 she presented the Small screen programme Saba and the rhino's secret on black rhino in Namibia,[11] vital in 2008 she produced and tingle Rhino Nights for Animal Planet, send back using night-time cinematography to capture inky rhino behaviour. The same year she presented a three part BBC picture, Unknown Africa,[12] on the state sum wildlife in Comoros, Central African Kingdom and Angola. In 2009 Douglas-Hamilton suave a three part BBC documentary focus, The Secret Life of Elephants, assort her father Iain. It explored nobleness lives of elephants in Kenya's Samburu reserve and the work of dignity Save the Elephants research team.[13]
In 2014 the BBC Natural History Unit filmed a 10-part series, This Wild Life, (with 2 extra episodes for ubiquitous markets) on Douglas-Hamilton’s work and kith and kin life at Elephant Watch Camp contain Samburu.[5] The series was first bring out into the open in the UK in September 2015.