Incredible actions to save the rhinoceros
An innovative programme to save the African wild dog
Adamson’s spiritual son, he manages his lion reserve

An orphan, adopted by a family who never loved him, Tony discovered a passion for Africa. He met George Adamson, the amazing “Lion Man” who became his spiritual father and helped him create his first park, to protect leopards... before dying at the hands of poachers. Since then, Tony Fitzjohn has devoted his life to saving different species such as the leopard, the African wild dog and the rhinoceros. The survival of the black rhinoceros is his most determined combat. Almost extinct in Tanzania, his sanctuary shelters the country’s last remaining specimens. Tony Fitzjohn and his armed team comb the bush to save the rhinoceros from poachers. He battles to get the government to transport the rhinoceros, by helicopter or by truck, to his guarded reserve. On the Maasai plains, he also collects baby wild dogs whose mothers have been killed, victims of herdsmen who poison them as punishment for the damage they inflict on livestock. An unloved animal, part-dog part-hyena, the African wild dog is cared for, vaccinated then educated to return to life in the wild by Tony’s team. Sensitive to the poverty of the villages neighbouring the reserve, Tony has also invested funds in the creation of a social programme which ensures primary education, medical dispensaries and equipment for the rehabilitation of sick children in the local communities.