alodi

Over a thirty plus year career, I have served as the Chief Nature Conservation Officer for the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, the Director of one of the world’s largest bird parks, World of Birds in Cape Town, the Zoological Manager for the Cango Wildlife Ranch and the Chief Executive Officer for the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). I have been an avid marine aquarist and am a published author on the subject. My first book, The Marine Aquarium (ISBN: 1-86872-097-7) was published by Struik in 1997. My second book will be published in July / August 2010. My third book, a fantasy adventure, is currently looking for a publisher and I am completing a fourth book, Raping Noah, a hard look behind the scenes of modern zoological gardens. I have written for South Africa’s only national fish keeping magazine and have served on their advice panel. I have been one of few to have bred the common clown fish Amphiprion ocellaris (made famous as in Disney’s production, Nemo). I have been afforded the wonderful opportunity to work with some of the world's most endangered species and to travel to some of the most remote, wild and indescribably beautiful places on our planet. I have survived more than one potentially fatal animal attack, including that by a silverback gorilla and have met some of the great contemporary conservationist, including Dian Fossey (Gorillas on the Mist).