Grant Fowlds is an extraordinary conservationist, and it was a great learning curve — and great fun — co-authoring this book with him.

He truly lives a life of adventure at the frontline, from farming goats in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu outbacks, where he narrowly escaped after being targeted by armed robbers, to tracking poachers the old fashioned way; on horseback, where silence and stealth trump technology.

Fowlds is the modern eco-warrior, a man who speaks three African languages fluently, can live hard with rangers in the bush, yet is equally at home giving boardroom power-point presentations to celebrities and Armani-suited politicians. He straddles the massive chasm of the ecological divide with natural ease, bringing together poverty-stricken communities promised the earth with land distribution and tough farmers and hunters on the other side of the spectrum.

He believes conservation has to be looked at holistically on this incredible continent. In some areas of Africa, there are unimaginably vast tracts of bush with no wild animals left. In others, animals are being squeezed into increasingly urbanized pockets. Relocation, not culling, is the solution.

In this book you will meet eco-scammers, an infinitely brave ranger who kept gorillas alive during Africa’s most horrific genocide, bush veterinarians saving rhinos whose horns have been hacked off with machetes, to Prince Harry in a hilarious politically incorrect encounter at the Fowlds family home.

I loved writing it. Hope you do reading it.