Friday, 12 December 2025

LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON, FOUNDER OF SAVE THE ELEPHANT PASSED AWAY

* LAIN DOUGLAS HAMILTON 
BORN IN - 16TH AUGUST 1942 

DIED ON - 08TH DECEMBER 2025 

* HE WAS A SCOTTISH ZOOLOGIST, FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY, 

* IN 1993 HE FOUNDED SAVE THE ELEPHANT 

* HIS FIRST' SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON ELEPHANT AT THE AGE OF 23 IN TANZANIA, LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK, 


AWARD - 

* 1988 - THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN ARK ( For ELEPHANT CONSERVATION) 

* 1992 - THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2015 - COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 

* 2010 - INDIANPOLIS PRIZE 

* 2006 - DISNEY WILDLIFE CONSERVATION FUND AWARD 

* LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD BY SAN DIEGO 

* HE WAS THE GRANDSON OF ALFRED DOUGLAS HAMILTON (13th DUKE OF HAMILTON) 


BOOKS - 

* HE & HIS WIFE ORIA HAMILTON CO AUTHOR 

- AMONG THE ELEPHANTS (1975) 

- BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS (1992) 

- THE TREE WHERE MAN WAS BORN 



* HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP TO CITES FOR MONITORING THE ILLEGAL KILLING OF ELEPHANT (MIKE) IN AFRICA 

* 1982 - IUCN MEMBER FOR AFRICANS ELEPHANT SPECIALIST GROUPS 

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