Chris MERCER

Chris Mercer - CV. After a career as an Advocate practising law in Zimbabwe and Botswana, Chris came back to South Africa in 1984, and decided to retire young. He farmed in the Western Transvaal for ten years, before he and Bev moved to the Kalahari to establish a wildlife rehab centre and Sanctuary. This they ran for seven years before handing it on to a British family who had run a rehab centre in West Africa. Now retired at Wilderness in the Cape, Chris keeps busy running the NGO which he and Bev founded, called the Campaign Against Canned Hunting, a registered non-profit and public benefit organisation. The couple’s work has earned them awards, both in SA and international. He is often called upon to speak on canned hunting by the media, and when the Minister was sued by the Predator Breeders Association to get lions excluded from the TOPS regulations, he was asked by the State Attorney to file an affidavit in support of the Minister’s defence. The couple are authors of the book “For the Love of Wildlife” the true story of one Namibian farming family’s efforts to set up a lion sanctuary. Specialties Animal Advocacy, Wildlife Rehab.

Chris MERCER's topics

• animal welfare,
• canned,
• conservation,
• hunting,
• rhino,
• trophy,
• trophy hunting canned conservation wildlife,
• wildlife

Chris MERCER's claimed blogs

1. 		cannedlion comments http://www.fortheloveofwildlife.com We used to run a wildlife rehab center in the Kalahari, and are authors of the book 'For the Love of Wildlife.' Our blog started recently because our …	Technorati Auth: 1