The Selous in Africa: A Long Way from Anywhere

Author Biography

Robert J. Ross is a native New Yorker who has spent the past decade capturing colourful moments in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Rob's work has been published in National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Getaway Magazine, Africa Geographic, Islands, Travel Africa and many other leading travel and environmental journals. Rob has also undertaken photographic assignments for the World Wildlife Fund(R), The Wildlife Conservation Society, and The Global Fund for Children. Rolf D. Baldus, was the German manager of the Selous Conservation Program in Tanzania from 1987 to 1993. In 1998 he returned in Tanzania as Government Advisor for Community Based Natural Resources Management and he was involved in revising the Wildlife Act and in assisting the creation of the new Saadani National Park and the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor in southern Tanzania. Bryan Christy is an author, journalist, and filmmaker. He is director of the Special Investigations Unit at National Geographic magazine and is a National Geographic Society Fellow. In 2014 he was named National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Christy is author of The Lizard King: the true crimes and passions of the world's greatest reptile smugglers. His international ivory investigation was made into the award-winning National Geographic-PBS documentary Battle for the Elephants. Walter Jubber has worked in reserves in Namibia and South Africa and he is currently Environmental Officer and Senior Trails Guide for Pafuri Campi in the northern region of Kruger National Park. A world renowned naturalist, explorer and activist, Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014) was the author of more than thirty books and the only writer to win the National Book Award for both non-fiction (The Snow Leopard, 1979 and 1980) and fiction (Shadow Country, 2008).