Saba Douglas-Hamilton has worked for a variety of conservation charities, and has appeared in wildlife documentaries produced by the BBC and other broadcasters.
17 Facts About Saba Douglas-Hamilton
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton is currently the manager of Elephant Watch Camp in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve and Special Projects Director for the charity Save the Elephants.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton's father went to Africa as a young man to study and conserve elephant populations.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton is a great-granddaughter of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, the 13th Duke of Hamilton.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton's sister Mara Moon Douglas-Hamilton, known as "Dudu", is a film producer.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton did not start school in Kenya until she was seven, then went to Britain to an all-girls boarding school for three years which she later described as "like a prison".
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton went on to attend the United World College of the Atlantic in South Wales to study for the International Baccalaureate.
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When she was 18, Saba Douglas-Hamilton was on a camel safari when she was bitten on her leg by a venomous snake.
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In February 2006, Saba Douglas-Hamilton married conservationist and journalist Frank Pope in a traditional Kenyan ceremony.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton has served as a trustee of Save the Elephants, a charity founded by her father.
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In 2008 Saba Douglas-Hamilton supported Merlin, the UK medical aid agency, to raise money for emergency health services following post-election violence when some 500 people were killed and more than 300,000 Kenyans were left without homes or clean water.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton is host of the annual Future For Nature Awards in Burgers Zoo, and chair of Future For Nature's International Selection Committee.
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Since 2000, Saba Douglas-Hamilton has appeared in wildlife documentaries produced by the BBC and others.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton has appeared in wildlife programmes set in other countries and regions, such as India, Lapland and in the Arctic, where she filmed polar bears.
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From 2004, Saba Douglas-Hamilton presented short pieces on holiday destinations in the BBC Holiday series.
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Saba Douglas-Hamilton produced and narrated a documentary, Heart of a Lioness, about a wild lioness called Kamunyak, "the blessed one," which acted as a maternal guardian for the lion's natural prey: an antelope.
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In 2009 Saba Douglas-Hamilton presented a three part BBC documentary series, The Secret Life of Elephants, with her father Iain.