User:Andrew Mark Schofield/sandbox

Andrew Schofield is an ecologist and was born in Farnborough in 1956. He has lived in Nigeria, Kenya, and now lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

Conservation has been the theme of his life with influences by many wonderful people that he has met over the years, starting with his god father who was the National Parks field officer for Nigeria who took him as a young boy to see the herds of Elephants in the bush to the turtles nesting on the beaches.

Andrew has created wildlife reserves in areas that have not had game on them for hundreds of years. He has collected and translocated species like Elephant, Rhino, Cheetah and Lion and successfully habituated them to the new reserves.

Andrew was the first person in the world to release White Lions back into the wild. This was a long and interesting project which had many successes and glorious failures, but now there are free roaming white lions in Africa due to his and his team’s perseverance.

These conservation projects have culminated in the form of a book, “White Lion back to the wild” which tells the story of how the White Lions were returned to their natural habitat and how game reserves are created.

Andrew still does conservation work throughout Africa and is a specialist nature guide for people who wish to explore the Fauna and Flora of Africa.

He is married to Simone and they have two adult children Janet and Adrian.