Daphne Sheldrick(1934-2018)

She was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in the 1989 Queen's Honours List and awarded Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2006 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to the conservation of wildlife especially elephants and to the local community in Kenya.

The worst thing we do to humans is give them life imprisonment for some terrible crime. There are lots of animals that can have a quality of life in a zoo situation. But not an elephant.