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Saba Iassa Douglas-Hamilton (born 7 June 1970) is a

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and other broadcasters. She is currently the manager of Elephant Watch Camp in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve and Special Projects Director for the charity ''

Save the Elephants Save the Elephants (STE) is a UK registered charity based in Kenya founded in September 1993 by Iain Douglas-Hamilton. Save the Elephants works to sustain elephant populations and preserve the habitats in which elephants are found, while at the ...

''.

Early life

Saba was born in Nairobi Hospital,

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, to

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Iain and Oria Douglas-Hamilton (''née'' Rocco). Saba means "seven" in the

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; she was named by

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women because she was born on 7 June at 7pm, and was the seventh grandchild. Her first language was Swahili and she grew up playing with the local Kenyan children. Her father went to Africa as a young man to study and conserve elephant populations. Her white African ancestry comes from her mother who is the daughter of Italians who settled in Kenya in the 1920s. Her mother still farms at

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in the Great Rift Valley. She is a great-granddaughter of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, the 13th Duke of Hamilton. Her sister Mara Moon Douglas-Hamilton, known as "Dudu" (which means "insect"), is a film producer.

Education

Saba did not start school in Kenya until she was seven, then went to Britain to an all-girls boarding school for three years which she later described as "like a prison". She went on to attend the

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in South

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to study for the

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. She gained a place at

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in Scotland and was awarded a master's degree in

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with a thesis on "Concepts of Love and Sexuality amongst the Bajuni People of Kiwaiyu Island, Kenya".

Snake bite

When she was 18, Saba was on a camel safari when she was bitten on her leg by a

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. Though sometimes misreported as an asp, this was identified as a

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. Friends made a pressure bandage and gave her electric shocks to keep her awake until they reached help.

Marriage and children

In February 2006, Saba married conservationist and journalist

Frank Pope Frank Pope (born 13 May 1973) is the chief executive officer for Save the Elephants (STE). After studying zoology at the University of Edinburgh he began his career in marine science before joining The Times newspaper as the world's only Ocea ...

in a traditional Kenyan ceremony. They live in a rustic house outside

that borders the famous Rothschild's Giraffe Sanctuary. They have three daughters: Selkie (born in March 2009) and younger twins Mayin and Luna.

Charity work

When she returned to Africa from her studies in the UK she worked for the ''

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'' in Namibia, mentored by conservationist

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. Douglas-Hamilton has served as a trustee of ''

'', a charity founded by her father. Based in

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in the

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, ''Save the Elephants'' carries out detailed long-term monitoring of the local elephant population, and deploys sophisticated elephant tracking techniques there and across the continent. Through the charity she has worked to support, protect and increase awareness of issues which threaten to erode African elephant populations and their habitats. In 2008 Saba supported Merlin (Medical Emergency Relief International), the UK medical aid agency, to raise money for emergency health services following post-election violence when some 500 people were killed and more than 300,000 Kenyans were left without homes or clean water. She is also host of the annual Future For Nature Awards in Burgers Zoo, and chair of Future For Nature's International Selection Committee.

Television career

Since 2000, Saba has appeared in wildlife documentaries produced by the

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and others. Many of these have been set in Africa and have featured elephants – an animal with which she became very familiar during her childhood. From 2002, she co-presented the '' Big Cat Diary'' series with Jonathan Scott and Simon King. She has also appeared in wildlife programmes set in other countries and regions, such as

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, Lapland and in the

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, where she filmed

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s. From 2004, Douglas-Hamilton presented short pieces on holiday destinations in the ''

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'' series. In 2006, she appeared alongside

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in an episode of ''

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'' in which she travelled back 10,000 years to study

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s. She produced and narrated a documentary, ''Heart of a Lioness'', about a wild lioness called Kamunyak, "the blessed one," which acted as a maternal guardian for the lion's natural prey: an antelope. In 2007 she presented the TV programme ''Saba and the rhino's secret'' on

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in Namibia, and in 2008 she produced and presented ''Rhino Nights'' for ''Animal Planet'', again using night-time cinematography to capture black rhino behaviour. The same year she presented a three part BBC documentary, ''Unknown Africa'', on the state of wildlife in

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. In 2009 Douglas-Hamilton presented a three part BBC documentary series, '' The Secret Life of Elephants'', with her father Iain. It explored the lives of elephants in Kenya's Samburu reserve and the work of the ''Save the Elephants'' research team. In 2014 the BBC Natural History Unit filmed a 10-part series, ''This Wild Life'', (with 2 extra episodes for international markets) on Douglas-Hamilton’s work and family life at Elephant Watch Camp in Samburu. The series was first broadcast in the UK in September 2015.

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