Saba Douglas-Hamilton
Birthday: Born in 1970-06-07 in Nairobi, Kenya
Deathday: Alive
Saba was born in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya on the 7th June at 7pm on the seventh day of the week, and became the 7th grandchild in the family. Her name means “seven” in Kiswahili. Saba’s first job was with Save the Rhino Trust in Namibia, working in the hinterland of the Skeleton Coast on a Crafts for Conservation project. In 1997 Saba joined her father’s charity Save the Elephants (STE) as Chief Operations Officer to help build up their research center in Samburu National Reserve, north Kenya. It was here that she was talent-spotted by the BBC and began her life as a TV presenter and producer of wildlife documentaries.
TV Credits
Prehistoric Park
Character:
Using his knowledge of today’s animal kingdom and the latest research, wildlife adventurer Nigel Marven uses a time portal to take him into the past, on a quest to rescue long lost prehistoric creatures....
Big Bear Week
Character: Herself - Presenter
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Unknown Africa
Character: Herself - Presenter
Saba Douglas-Hamilton explores the wildlife in 'unknown' parts of Africa....
Nature's Epic Journeys
Character: Self
Follow three groups of animals – caribou, zebra, and elephants – as they face the immense challenges of migration in places around the world....
Movie Credits
A Life Among Elephants
Character: Self - Interviewee
60 years ago, almost nothing was known of elephants in the wild. But then one young Scottish biologist changed that forever. In 1965 Iain Douglas-Hamilton arrived in Tanzania to live alongside African elephants. Later joined by his wife Oria and daughters Saba and Dudu, elephants became central to their lives with matriarch Boadicea and gentle young mother Virgo cherished like human relatives. But this garden Eden was short-lived as an ivory poaching epidemic swept across Africa forcing Iain to ...