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Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden.
Naturalist and wildlife preservationist Joy Adamson is best known for the books and films depicting her work in Africa, especially her inspirational book Born Free. Adamson spent almost forty years living on game reserves in Kenya, and became heavily involved in wildlife preservation activities.
Aug 21, 1989 · 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.
Joy Adamson (born Jan. 20, 1910, Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]—died Jan. 3, 1980, Shaba National Reserve, Kenya) was a conservationist who pioneered the movement to preserve African wildlife.
Sep 6, 2012 · The lives of Joy and George Adamson, the couple who adopted the famous lioness, Elsa.
Illustrator, conservationist and author Joy Adamson is internationally known for her contribution to Kenya’s natural and cultural heritage. Adamson was a colorful, if at times...
Starring real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as George and Joy Adamson, it became a box office hit and award-winner, and turned Travers and McKenna into wildlife...
Joy and George Adamson were the pioneers behind this incredible journey and their conservation legacy continues today. Living in a remote African wilderness and returning and orphaned Lioness back into the wild, must have been a labour of love.
Austrian-born writer and naturalist in Kenya whose bestselling book Born Free was pivotal in changing attitudes worldwide toward the value of preserving wildlife and habitat.
Joy Adamson embraced East Africa and shared her embrace with the world. During more than four decades in Kenya, she sketched and painted the region's luxuriant flowers and...
