Lindy Rodwell
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Lindy Rodwell (born 13 February 1962, in Johannesburg) is a South African zoologist and conservationist. She works on preserving viable wetland habitat and population sizes for the cranes of Africa south of the Sahara, the endangered blue crane and grey-crowned crane and the critically endangered wattled crane.
Career
[edit]Lindy Rodwell was awarded a BSc(Zoology) and a Higher Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Town. Later she became Africa programme coordinator for the South African Crane Working Group of the Endangered Wildlife Trust.[citation needed]
Rodwell is currently a Trustee of both the Endangered Wildlife Trust and the World Wildlife Fund. She co-founded the Nature's Valley Trust (NVT), a non-governmental organization, with her husband, James van Hasselt. The NVT focusses on conservation-related issues along the Garden Route.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]- 1999 Whitley Gold Award Winner[1]
- 2002 Whitley Continuation Award Winner
- 2002 Environment Award in Rolex Awards for Enterprise
References
[edit]- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.whitleyaward.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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