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our keepers and rangers |
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The skill and devotion of our keepers has resulted in some incredibly successful breeding programmes. Meet some of the team who make Howletts and Port Lympne two of the best Wild Animal Parks in the world!
View our keeper interviews here. |
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| Our Park Ranger - Warren David Cathro |
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Warren joined Zimbabwe National Parks on
leaving school and worked his way up through
the ranks to become a senior warden.
For 16 years he worked in Hwange National
Park, Gona-re-Zhou, Matapos, Tuli Circle, Kyle,
Ngazi and the Zambesi Valley, participating
in game capture and relocation to restock
protected areas for wildlife conservation.
In the Zambesi Valley, he was involved in the
capture of critically endangered black rhino and
their relocation to especially protected zones
(EPZs) as part of endangered species breeding
programmes in the USA, Australia and various
European countries.
He has also captured white rhino for exchange with other National Parks in Zimbabwe and
enabled the relocation of many other threatened wild animals such as elephant calves,
buffalo, roas antelope, sable antelope, impala, kudu, eland, reed buck, warthog, wild pig
and wildebeest.
He had the honour of working with many leading personnel of Zimbabwe National Parks
including Clem and Paul Coetzee, Ron Thompson, Ronnie Van Heerden and John Passalt.
Warren was also a member of the Black Eagle Survey Group for the Matapos National Park.
Managed by Mrs Val Gaigett, this was the largest and, at 30 years, the longest-running
project of its kind and included all birds of prey found in the Matapos.
He has considerable wildlife park experience having been involved in many extended
guided and tented safaris.
Tailpiece: During his time at Zimbabwe National Parks and in wildlife management,
Warren came to be known as �Tsindi�, which means �The Squirrel�! |
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