Joy adamson alfred c ames essay

According to Adamson biographer, Adrian House, in his The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Born Free served as inspiration for Iain Douglas Hamilton, a major activist working to protect the African elephant from extinction, to become a zoologist.

Adamson was the founder of the World Wildlife Fund and the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal. She was an early activist in the movement to boycott clothing made from animal fur. She established links with the East African Wild Animal Society, which was formed in 1962 and was the precursor to the Wildlife Clubs of Kenya.

Adamson was game warden of Kenya’s northern Frontier District in 1944 when he married Joy, an Austrian-born artist whose books later thrust him into fame. After living apart from her husband, Joy moved to the game reserve in the late 1960s to work with leopards. In 1956, her husband brought home three motherless lion cubs.

Conservationist George Adamson was slain by bandits near the wildlife reserve where he and his late wife, “Born Free” author Joy Adamson, taught lions raised in captivity to live in the wild. Adamson, 83, was killed Sunday as he drove head on into a group of Somali bandits who had earlier robbed and beaten his assistants.