Saba Douglas-Hamilton

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Saba Iassa Douglas-Hamilton (born June 7, 1970 in Kenya ) is a Kenyan environmental activist and documentary filmmaker .

Life

Douglas-Hamilton was born near Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya as the daughter of the zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton and Oria Douglas-Hamilton, nee. Rocco, born. Saba means "seven" in Swahili . She got her name from Maasai women because she was born at 7 a.m. and was the seventh grandchild. Her first language was Swahili and she grew up with Kenyan children. She is a great-granddaughter of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton . Her sister Mara Mond Douglas-Hamilton , known as "Dudu", is a film producer.

Douglas-Hamilton did not go to school in Kenya, but only went to a girls' boarding school in Great Britain after she was seven . She later described this time as "like a prison". She attended Atlantic College in South Wales . Through good performance she earned a place at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland , where she received her master's degree in social anthropology with a thesis on "Concepts of love and sexuality among the Bajuni people of Kiwaiyu Island , Kenya".

Career

After studying in Great Britain, she worked for the Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia . She also helped the organization Save the Elephants , which was founded by her father. She conducted studies on rhinos and elephants and researched the way of life of the pachyderms. She later wrote columns on the endangerment of the elephants by humans.

Douglas-Hamilton has been producing a series of animal documentaries for the BBC since 2000 . Most of them play in Africa and deal with large mammals. Since 2002 she has co-hosted the Big Cat Diary series with Jonathan Scott and Simon King . In 2006 she appeared in an episode of Prehistoric Park with Nigel Marven . As a big cat expert, she helps Marven to study saber-toothed cats . She made other documentaries about big cats and black rhinos .

In March 2008, she reported in a three-part BBC documentary called Unknown Africa on the state of wildlife in the Comoros , the Central African Republic and Angola .

In 2009 she shot The Secret Life of Elephants with her father . The documentary shows how elephants, etc. a. even those who are cared for by the organization Save the Elephants live. The series sold well on DVD.

She has been married to the archaeologist and author Frank Pope since February 4, 2006. She is the mother of three daughters.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at www.douglas-hamilton.com ( Memento from September 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ BBC Nature and Science ( Memento from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009l505 BBC
  4. ^ The Secret Life of Elephants . Retrieved October 18, 2009.
  5. ^ The Secret Life of Elephants (DVD) . Retrieved October 18, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Douglas-Hamilton, Saba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas-Hamilton, Saba Iassa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kenyan conservationist and documentary filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Kenya