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Welcome
to Our African Guests Dr. Pete Morkel is from Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania, where he works for the Frankfurt Zoological Society. He had always wanted to work with wildlife, though not necessarily as a vet. However, his path did take him into vet school and he landed a job working with wildlife in Namibia after his graduation. This job ended up requiring a lot of work with the rhinos and Pete has stayed with it ever since. His work has led to his traveling to many other countries with game capture and surplus animal capture to sell for restocking other preserves or private ranches in Africa. Our other distinguished guest was Richard Fryer, head of rhino capture from Namibia. His conservation seed was planted early on by his father who also worked with the game capture unit in what was S. W. Africa prior to Independence, now Namibia. Pete Morkel was with the Namibia Ministry of Environment for 14 years. Richard now runs the Black rhino Custodianship Program. There are approximately 1,150 black rhinos in Namibia. Richard and his group work directly with about 185 of them, that now live on private ranches. Pete was part of the beginning of this program that was started in 1993 by people interested in the conservation of the rhinos. Richard joined them in 1996 |
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