The Late HRH Prince Bernhard (1911-2004)
Patron, Save the Elephants
His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands became the Patron of Save the Elephants in the year 2003. Prince Bernhard was always highly committed to nature conservation. In 1961, he established the World Wildlife Fund (now the World Wide Fund for Nature), with the aim of conserving plant and animal species throughout the world, making more space for nature, and protecting the environment. In 1971 the Prince founded the Order of the Golden Ark, an honour awarded to those who have performed outstanding service in the area of wildlife conservation.
Sadly HRH Prince Bernhard passed away on 1st December 2004 at the age of 93 after a battle with cancer. Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton was amongst the guests who attended the funeral service on the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen.
Read more about HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands
Prof. Fritz Vollrath
Chairman, Save the Elephants
Born in 1948, Fritz Vollrath studied in Germany and obtained his PhD (with a thesis on spider behaviour) in 1977 from Freiburg University after research fellowships and fieldwork with the Max Plank Institute in Seewiesen and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. After 9 years in Oxford as Royal Society Post-doctorate Research Fellow and University Research Associate, 5 years in Switzerland (Basel) as Associate Professor and 8 years in Denmark (Aarhus) as Professor of Zoology, Fritz Vollrath is now back at the University of Oxford as Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Zoology and Senior Research Associate of Balliol College.
Fritz Vollrath's research focuses on the evolution of spider web-building behaviour and on the extraordinary properties of the silk used to build the webs. His studies on the spider's movements during web construction have led to analysis tools and novel insights into animal decision making. STE employs these findings at the other end of the scale of animal sizes while investigating elephant movements and decisions.
Fritz Vollrath has been an STE Trustee since the year 2002. In 2003 he became the new STE Chairman when Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton became President and CEO of the organisation.
Prof. Fritz Vollrath
Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Office: +44-1865-271234, Fax: +44-1865-358221
The Late Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Sir Wilfred Thesiger was one of the last great explorers of the 20th Century. He crossed the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia and was most at home with tribal nomadic people in far off corners of the world in Iraq, Persia, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and more recently in Kenya. He loved arid lands and felt in harmony with the desert. He had a particularly close relationship with the Samburu people where he spent many of his final years. Like our great nomadic bull elephants he roamed unfettered in open trackless spaces, either alone or with others close to the wilderness. For his last few years he served as a Save the Elephants trustee and was a great moral support for us in our mission to secure a future for elephants.
Sir Wilfred Thesiger passed away in August 2003 aged 90.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/3180723.stm
Felix Appelbe
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Felix Appelbe is a co-founding trustee with Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Felix is both passionate about Africa and conservation and the promotion of eco-tourism using local people. A solicitor specializing in forming charities and a farmer in the Cotswolds, Felix is actively involved in running the charity on a day-to-day basis, holding Trustees meetings, supervising the charity's banking, and considering how to maximize the interests of the charity from a legal perspective.
Read about Felix Appelbe's work as head of the private client department of Ambrose Appelbe, a London firm of solicitors:
http://www.ambrose.appelbe.co.uk/FelixAppelbe.htm
Marlene McCay
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Marlene McCay joined the Board of Trustees in the year 2001 and has continued to be one of Save the Elephants major supporters. In June 2003, Marlene McCay began a project in collaboration with STE and Kruger National Park to examine the population dynamics and movement of elephants within the Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR) and the adjacent Kruger National Park (KNP). Together with STE and Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, Marlene has pioneered the Green Hunting of elephants as a complete alternative to lethal hunting.
In 1988 Marlene McCay and her husband David bought the Constantia Uitsig property and are owners of Constantia Uitsig Wine Estate, South Africa. http://www.constantia-uitsig.com
Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Saba Douglas-Hamilton is the youngest member of the Board of Trustees. Eldest daughter of STE founder Iain and his wife Oria Douglas-Hamilton, Saba and her sister Dudu grew up surrounded by elephants and spent most of their childhood in the bush tracking elephants. She attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales and went on to take a first-class degree in Anthropology at St Andrews University with her thesis on 'Love and sexuality amongst the Bajuni of Kiwaiyu Island, Kenya'.
Saba currently produces and presents wildlife documentaries for the BBC, Discovery and Animal Planet
http://www.douglas-hamilton.com/
Peter Henderson
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Pete Henderson joined the Board of Trustees in 2004. He is the CEO of Indigo Telecom Ltd, a company providing satellite solutions for voice and Internet connectivity and is also an independent investor in telecommunication companies worldwide. Pete has worked in numerous African countries and Iraq.
Indigo Telecom Ltd - (IT)
+254 20 3876805/6/7/8 Office, +254 733 596506 Mobile, +88216 4333 9090 Thuraya
pete@indigo.co.ke, http://www.indigotelecom.com
Euan Macdonald
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Euan Macdonald is the newest Save the Elephants' Trustees and joined the
Board in 2008. Mr Macdonald spent over 20 years with SG Warburg, specialising in emerging market finance. From 1995 to 1999, Mr Macdonald was Chairman of SBC Warburg India, responsible for all the bank’s activities in India, and from 1999 to 2001, he was Executive Vice Chairman of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets, India.
Mr Macdonald has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and a Master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia Business School
Patron, Save the Elephants
His Royal Highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands became the Patron of Save the Elephants in the year 2003. Prince Bernhard was always highly committed to nature conservation. In 1961, he established the World Wildlife Fund (now the World Wide Fund for Nature), with the aim of conserving plant and animal species throughout the world, making more space for nature, and protecting the environment. In 1971 the Prince founded the Order of the Golden Ark, an honour awarded to those who have performed outstanding service in the area of wildlife conservation.Sadly HRH Prince Bernhard passed away on 1st December 2004 at the age of 93 after a battle with cancer. Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton was amongst the guests who attended the funeral service on the invitation of Her Majesty the Queen.
Read more about HRH Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands
Prof. Fritz Vollrath
Chairman, Save the Elephants
Born in 1948, Fritz Vollrath studied in Germany and obtained his PhD (with a thesis on spider behaviour) in 1977 from Freiburg University after research fellowships and fieldwork with the Max Plank Institute in Seewiesen and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. After 9 years in Oxford as Royal Society Post-doctorate Research Fellow and University Research Associate, 5 years in Switzerland (Basel) as Associate Professor and 8 years in Denmark (Aarhus) as Professor of Zoology, Fritz Vollrath is now back at the University of Oxford as Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Zoology and Senior Research Associate of Balliol College.Fritz Vollrath's research focuses on the evolution of spider web-building behaviour and on the extraordinary properties of the silk used to build the webs. His studies on the spider's movements during web construction have led to analysis tools and novel insights into animal decision making. STE employs these findings at the other end of the scale of animal sizes while investigating elephant movements and decisions.
Fritz Vollrath has been an STE Trustee since the year 2002. In 2003 he became the new STE Chairman when Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton became President and CEO of the organisation.
Prof. Fritz Vollrath
Department of Zoology, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Office: +44-1865-271234, Fax: +44-1865-358221
The Late Sir Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003)
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Sir Wilfred Thesiger was one of the last great explorers of the 20th Century. He crossed the Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia and was most at home with tribal nomadic people in far off corners of the world in Iraq, Persia, Kurdistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan and more recently in Kenya. He loved arid lands and felt in harmony with the desert. He had a particularly close relationship with the Samburu people where he spent many of his final years. Like our great nomadic bull elephants he roamed unfettered in open trackless spaces, either alone or with others close to the wilderness. For his last few years he served as a Save the Elephants trustee and was a great moral support for us in our mission to secure a future for elephants.Sir Wilfred Thesiger passed away in August 2003 aged 90.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/3180723.stm
Felix Appelbe
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Felix Appelbe is a co-founding trustee with Dr Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Felix is both passionate about Africa and conservation and the promotion of eco-tourism using local people. A solicitor specializing in forming charities and a farmer in the Cotswolds, Felix is actively involved in running the charity on a day-to-day basis, holding Trustees meetings, supervising the charity's banking, and considering how to maximize the interests of the charity from a legal perspective.Read about Felix Appelbe's work as head of the private client department of Ambrose Appelbe, a London firm of solicitors:
http://www.ambrose.appelbe.co.uk/FelixAppelbe.htm
Marlene McCay
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Marlene McCay joined the Board of Trustees in the year 2001 and has continued to be one of Save the Elephants major supporters. In June 2003, Marlene McCay began a project in collaboration with STE and Kruger National Park to examine the population dynamics and movement of elephants within the Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR) and the adjacent Kruger National Park (KNP). Together with STE and Timbavati Private Nature Reserve, Marlene has pioneered the Green Hunting of elephants as a complete alternative to lethal hunting.In 1988 Marlene McCay and her husband David bought the Constantia Uitsig property and are owners of Constantia Uitsig Wine Estate, South Africa. http://www.constantia-uitsig.com
Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Saba Douglas-Hamilton is the youngest member of the Board of Trustees. Eldest daughter of STE founder Iain and his wife Oria Douglas-Hamilton, Saba and her sister Dudu grew up surrounded by elephants and spent most of their childhood in the bush tracking elephants. She attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales and went on to take a first-class degree in Anthropology at St Andrews University with her thesis on 'Love and sexuality amongst the Bajuni of Kiwaiyu Island, Kenya'.Saba currently produces and presents wildlife documentaries for the BBC, Discovery and Animal Planet
http://www.douglas-hamilton.com/
Peter Henderson
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Pete Henderson joined the Board of Trustees in 2004. He is the CEO of Indigo Telecom Ltd, a company providing satellite solutions for voice and Internet connectivity and is also an independent investor in telecommunication companies worldwide. Pete has worked in numerous African countries and Iraq.Indigo Telecom Ltd - (IT)
+254 20 3876805/6/7/8 Office, +254 733 596506 Mobile, +88216 4333 9090 Thuraya
pete@indigo.co.ke, http://www.indigotelecom.com
Euan Macdonald
Trustee, Save the Elephants
Euan Macdonald is the newest Save the Elephants' Trustees and joined the
Board in 2008. Mr Macdonald spent over 20 years with SG Warburg, specialising in emerging market finance. From 1995 to 1999, Mr Macdonald was Chairman of SBC Warburg India, responsible for all the bank’s activities in India, and from 1999 to 2001, he was Executive Vice Chairman of HSBC Securities and Capital Markets, India.Mr Macdonald has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University and a Master’s degree in Finance and International Business from Columbia Business School