Eastern Cape conservationist Cathy Dreyer flew the South African flag high when she scooped a prestigious international conservation award at a lavish ceremony in the UK, where she rubbed shoulders with Prince William this week.
Dreyer was awarded the top accolade for protecting endangered species, threatened habitats and promoting environmental education at the 2016 Tusk Conservation Awards at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Wednesday.
The wildlife conservationist and anti-rhino poaching activist won the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa at the annual event – making her the first South African to receive the award.
On its website, the Tusk Conservation Awards states that the prestigious accolade is given to those “extraordinary people, whose work and lives might otherwise go unnoticed outside their fields”.
Dreyer’s duties inclues rhino management which includes rhino monitoring, tracking and constantly keeping up to date with anti-poaching initiatives.
The Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency (ECPTA) official, who arrived back home yesterday morning, said she was still overwhelmed with everything that had happened over the past two days.
“It is all still so surreal. I’m honoured and humbled at the same time,” Dreyer said.
“It’s been a privilege to be working with a great team and to have won among so many other conservationists which I believe are doing extremely great work, is an absolute blessing,” the “rhino whisperer”, as Dreyer is affectionately known, told Saturday Dispatch.
Dreyer confessed she had always been passionate about black rhinos.
First Tusk Award for SA
Dreyer was awarded the top accolade for protecting endangered species, threatened habitats and promoting environmental education at the 2016 Tusk Conservation Awards at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Wednesday.
The wildlife conservationist and anti-rhino poaching activist won the Tusk Award for Conservation in Africa at the annual event – making her the first South African to receive the award.
On its website, the Tusk Conservation Awards states that the prestigious accolade is given to those “extraordinary people, whose work and lives might otherwise go unnoticed outside their fields”.
Dreyer’s duties inclues rhino management which includes rhino monitoring, tracking and constantly keeping up to date with anti-poaching initiatives.
The Eastern Cape Parks and Tourism Agency (ECPTA) official, who arrived back home yesterday morning, said she was still overwhelmed with everything that had happened over the past two days.
“It is all still so surreal. I’m honoured and humbled at the same time,” Dreyer said.
“It’s been a privilege to be working with a great team and to have won among so many other conservationists which I believe are doing extremely great work, is an absolute blessing,” the “rhino whisperer”, as Dreyer is affectionately known, told Saturday Dispatch.
Dreyer confessed she had always been passionate about black rhinos.
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