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May
2017.
CONSERVATION CHARITY ELEPHANTS FOR AFRICA FOUNDER TO TALK AT THE HAY FESTIVAL

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FOUNDER OF CONSERVATION CHARITYELEPHANTS FOR AFRICAGIVES TALK AT THE HAY FESTIVAL, MAY 2017

Dr Kate Evans, founder and director of Elephants for Africa, the conservation charity based in Botswana, is speaking at the Hay Festival on 26 May 2017.

Kate will be talking about working with elephants in Botswana and her involvement with the book Harmony for Elephants, which was a collaboration of music, photography, and Kate's writing.

She says: ‘I am excited about this opportunity to share my personal experiences with elephants, what I have learned from them and my hopes for their future and those people living alongside them.

‘But this will not just be about elephants; I also look forward to sharing my journey through this book, how difficult I found writing it, and choosing the experiences to highlight the elephant journey I wanted to bring to life in this book. It's a very personal story to me in so many ways and so the next challenge will be for me to get up and present at the Hay Festival.'

Elephants for Africa works to build on their conservation work which is being developed through research and education with the local communities in Botswana.

The charity develops their research from their study site in the Makgadikgadi & Pans National Park in Botswana Much of the charity's current work focuses on the coexistence humans and elephants who live side by side.

Elephants for Africa was founded in 2007 by Dr Evans who started the charity having had a lifelong passion for elephants. Kate is a research associate of theUniversity of Bristol, and a member of theIUCN African Elephant Specialist Group, the Elephant Specialist Advisory Group , theSouth African Wildlife Management Association and the Zoological Society of Southern Africa.

 

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For further information on the website, for images, or interviews, please contactclaire@elephantsforafrica.org

Website -www.elephantsforafrica.org