Petronel started in the Endangered Species Protection Unit of the South African Police Service and now runs the largest rhino orphanage in the world. She has developed best practices for the capture, care, and management of wildlife and was recently named one of the most inspirational woman in conservation across Africa.
Her work has helped improve wound care for rhino calves, develop a better milk replacement formula, and increase success of rhinos who are returned to the wild.
Elizke
Elizke and her team have developed a novel approach to train young cheetah cubs to learn to hunt and to avoid predators so that the cubs can eventually be released into the wild and survive.
They have successfully released cubs that have survived and had their own completely wild cubs, contributing to having more wild cheetahs in Africa.
Mike
Mike and his management team have taken former farmland and made it a thriving wildlife reserve which boasts free ranging members of all the “Big Five”. In addition, data is collected daily that helps ecologists and conservation biologists understand behavior, physiology, and biological needs of the organisms.
Mike is also a partner in pioneering efforts to use contraception for elephants so that the population is kept at an ideal number to provide an ecological balance for all the organisms in the reserve.
