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In , he founded Save the Elephants, which is dedicated to securing a future for elephants and their habitats.

The Hon. Iain Douglas-Hamilton CBE (born 16 August) is a zoologist known for his study of elephants.

Douglas-Hamilton pioneered the first in-depth scientific study of elephant social behaviour in Tanzania's Lake Manyara National Park, aged During the s, he investigated the status of elephants throughout Africa and was the first to alert the world to the ivory poaching holocaust, bringing about the first global ivory trade ban in In , he was named the recipient of the Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation.

His older brother, Diarmaid, was a physicist. Their father, a Royal Air Force officer and Spitfire pilot, was killed in the war in He attended Gordonstoun School in Scotland between and From the time he was 10 years old, Iain dreamed that he would fly around Africa and save animals. He went on to study Zoology at Oxford University, earning first a bachelor's degree, in , and then a D.

The Douglas-Hamiltons live in Kenya. Douglas-Hamilton and his wife, Oria, have co-authored two award-winning books, Among the Elephants and Battle for the Elephants , and have made several television films. At the age of 23, Douglas-Hamilton moved to Tanzania to live in the wild in Lake Manyara National Park, where he carried out the first scientific study of the social interactions of the African elephant.

From that study came his hypothesis, rooted in behavioural ecology, that elephant movements could hold the key to understanding their reactions to their changing environments. Douglas-Hamilton argues that collecting and analysing large amounts of data on elephant locations and migrations can lead to insights into their choices, and therefore assist in their protection against rising threats, including poaching and human-wildlife conflict.

I was incredibly lucky to have had the chance to be the first person to do that with elephants.