Aug 2, 2022
Damien is an Iraq war veteran who served as a Naval clearance
diver and special operations sniper for the Australian Defense
Force.
He is an environmentalist and founder and CEO of the International
Anti-Poaching Foundation.
In 2009 while traveling through Africa, he was inspired by the work
of rangers and the plight of wildlife. Liquidating his life
savings, the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) was
established as the last line of defense for nature.
Over the past decade, the IAPF has scaled to train and support
rangers which now help protect over 4 million hectares of the
African wilderness.
In 2017 IAPF founded ‘Akashinga – Nature Protected by Women’, a
program that has already grown to over 170 employees, becoming the
only group of nature reserves in the world to be protected by
women.
The goal is to employ 1000 women by 2025, protecting a network of
20 nature reserves, all managed by the IAPF.
Damien is the winner of the 2019 Winsome Constance Kindness Gold
Medal, a prestigious international recognition for services to
animals and humanity. Past recipients include Sir David
Attenborough and Dr. Jane Goodall. He was featured in the newly
released James Cameron documentary The Game Changers and is now
releasing another documentary with James Cameron and National
Geographic about his work with the women of Akashinga.
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