This is a story of the Natal Parks Board.
Author, Dr George Hughes has been involved in conservation for virtually all his working life. Developing an early interest in birds and reptiles, encouraged by sympathetic and empathetic school teachers at Estcourt High School and endowed with a great spirit of adventure and joy of the outdoor life he became a fair hunter and passionate trout angler, being drawn to the mountains and beauty of rural Natal.
When he was 19 a friend persuaded him to join what turned out to be a two-year expedition to Europe from where, in 1960, he hitchhiked from northern Norway, through Yugoslavia and via Egypt and East Africa to take up his first formal conservation job as a learner ranger with the Natal Parks Board. After four years in Giant’s Castle Game Reserve, he went to the University of Natal and the Oceanographic Research Institute in Durban to emerge with a PhD in Zoology. Rejoining the Natal Parks Board in 1974 as a field biologist, he turned to management and became its CEO in 1988. He retired in 2001
(Source: The Natal Society Foundation)
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