After many years observing wildlife conservation efforts across Africa, one reality continues to surface: funding remains one of its greatest vulnerabilities. For decades, conservation across the continent has depended heavily on donor funding, large international NGOs, philanthropy, tourism revenues. Governments' conservation budgets are systematically stretched too thin. In this context, international support has brought important, often vital benefits. Yet it can also leav

Each year, I guide and support volunteers from France and Italy through their placement process with Game Rangers International (GRI). Recently, one French participant’s journey particularly stayed with me. Michelle first wrote to me in January about a volunteer placement she hoped to join in October 2025. Michelle with Lusaka school kids at the Wildlife Discovery Centre She had applied through Game Rangers International and, being based in France, was referred to me as the

Nature needs future leaders with their passion! In November 2024 I had the opportunity to bring to Grenoble's Ecole de Management - GEM (one of France's ten leading Business schools),  some of Southern Africa's conservation projects that are closest to my heart. I was invited to speak within the Master of Science in Management of Sustainability Transitions, invited by Naida Culshaw: an opportunity to convey the importance and ground-breaking value of ongoing projects cent

The Cobras, who received bicycles via proceeds from my book, have since become role models for the local remote villages in southern Hwange.

I have partnered with the awesome Clik Gallery, founded by Suzanne Porter in Grenoble, and pluri-awarded photographer Arun Mohanraj,...

I started painting birds with my mom when she lived amongst the hills of Mpumalanga, South Africa. She was a painter and her wild 8-hectare garden was her reign, populated by birds and flowers of every color, size and shape. Kudus and bushbucks could be fleetingly seen at dawn in the tall grass and tropical birds would come to feed off the pawpaw (papaya) tray strategically placed on my mom’s veranda. This way she could admire them from behind the large sliding glass doors

I wanted to include in my The Wild Charm jewellery collection a piece that could celebrate the work done by the great organisation I...

I am honoured to have my book “Zambezi Valley – The Lost Stronghold", which is an account of the Zimbabwe Rhino War of the late ‘80s and...

In my recent stay in Southern Africa from August 2022 until March 2023 I have seen a fantastic growth in conservation tourism and...