Steve Boyes

National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes has dedicated his life to conserving Africa’s wilderness areas and the species that depend upon them through innovative and integrative methods. In 2015, Boyes launched the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, a multi-year effort aimed at exploring and protecting the little known wilderness of the Angolan highlands that provides over 95 percent of the water that sustains the Okavango Delta and the biodiversity of the greater Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area. Boyes also founded the Cape Parrot Project, which aims to stimulate positive change for the species through high-quality research and community-based conservation action. He is the founder and chairman of the Wild Bird Trust and The Wilderness Project Foundation, a senior research fellow at the FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology (University of Cape Town), and leads the Okavango Eternal Partnership between National Geographic and De Beers Group. Boyes is an author, TED Speaker and storyteller. His films, "Into the Okavango" and "Ghost Elephants" reveal the importance of little-known wildernesses and the people, wildlife, and biodiversity that depend upon them.