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WILDERNESS GUIDES ASSOCIATION

As an invited member, Alan is the first African guide to register with the European Wilderness Guides Association. The group facilitates networking structures for leadership programs, wilderness encounters and conservation initiatives around the world.

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ELEPHANT CONSERVATION

AMS has teamed up with Rhino Grohmann's Rhino Safaris to operate interactive elephant awareness safaris in the Great Kruger, SA. This is collaboration with leading conservation organisation Elephants Alive. Proceeds of the safaris are donated to their operational and fieldwork costs.

JULY ELEPHANT SAFARI @ UMLANI

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ALAN AT TEDX AMSTERDAM, 2011
Remote campfires are normally the place, but much like Crocodile Dundee, Alan occasionally ventures out into the big smoke to speak at European boardrooms and events.

SEMINAL ELEPHANT ENCOUNTER
Alan's incredible interaction with a wild bull has over 40M views. Discover the story HERE

A MESSAGE FROM NATURE
The most advanced species ever known has been brought to our knees by a virus, which technically is not even a living organism. Why?

INTERVIEW WITH ALDITH HUNKAR
Exploring the jungles of Amsterdam and bringing a stone from the Motherland to 600 people at the TEDx event.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM NATURE?
The earth is the prime source of understanding and knowledge.The gateway to this is simple attention: a little space between our mental and physical worlds; our intentions and consequences. A redemptive stillness to reflect.

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ZAKOUMA NATIONAL PARK, CHAD

Chad? What's out there? Endless brutal desert, camels and wild nomadic people for sure; only crazy travellers go there. So Alan went. And then there is Zakouma; a most unexpected and spectacular wildlife bonanza! An incredible story of a remarkable transition from despair and extreme poaching to one of bounty, renewal and sensational safaris. Alan is one of a handful of guides to have led safaris to Zakouma in the daunting wet season ... an explorers dream beyond expectations. Inshallah!

ENNEDI NATURAL & CULTURAL RESERVE, SAHARA DESERT, CHAD

Imagine a seep of clear cold water emerging from desert springs in a sandstone gorge, somewhere in the Sahara. A legendary oasis lost in time. The 4 dwarf crocodiles that live here are seeing out time. Evolution before our eyes. "Because of this day, and those crocodiles in the pool below, I commit to living with less impact than before", writes Alan. The primitivity of the desert, and it’s conservation, is essential for us all.

AFRICAN PARKS TRAINING CONTRACT

In 2019 Alan was contracted by the African Parks network to design and lead a guide training course on behalf of the Tinga Camp, Camp Nomade and the community guides. There is no guiding qualification structure in Chad so the mission was to create one as it never been formally done before. An exceptional 6-week long adventure unfolded! Good old fashioned human being-ness was abound in a country once considered as the “dark heart of Africa".

GUIDE TRAINING

A long standing associate of EcoTraining, the largest guide training institution in Africa as a contract trails guide and tracker trainer. Alan's base was in the Makuleke Contractual Park, northern Kruger; the remotest big game enclave in South Africa. These opportunities are invaluable to participate in future legacies within aspiring guides and conservationists.