National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes has dedicated his life to
conserving Africa’s wilderness areas and the species that depend on
them through innovative and integrative methods. In 2015, Boyes
launched the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, a
multiyear effort to explore and protect the little-known wilderness of
the Angolan Highlands that provides over 95% of the water that
sustains the Okavango Delta and the biodiversity of the greater
Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. His team’s efforts
to advance scientific research, scale conservation efforts, and
preserve traditional knowledge are supported by the Okavango Eternal
partnership between the National Geographic Society and the De Beers
Group. He is the founder and chairman of the Wild Bird Trust and The
Wilderness Project, and a senior research fellow at the FitzPatrick
Institute of African Ornithology (University of Cape Town). Boyes is
also an author, TED speaker and storyteller. His films, “Into the
Okavango” and “Ghost Elephants,” reveal the importance of vital
ecosystems and the people, wildlife and biodiversity they nourish.
