SETH HENDON
BOARD CHAIRMAN

How did you become inspired to help African wildlife conservation?

My family has had a commitment to Africa since our first volunteer trip to Ghana in 2008 and to African wildlife since our first experience, in 2014, in the Grumeti Reserve, which is on the western boundary of the Serengeti National Park of Tanzania. There, a combination of privately funded habitat conservation, collaboration with local communities, and vigilant protection of wildlife through efforts of anti-poaching units has achieved meaningful and sustainable results. The Phinda Private Game Reserve has done the same in the KwaZulu-Natal of South Africa. These successful models are my inspiration and it is my hope that Wild Tomorrow’s Ukewela Conservancy can follow suit.

Why did you choose to join the Board?

I joined the board in conjunction with Wild Tomorrow’s establishing the Ukuwela Conservancy. Ukuwela is an opportunity to support a conservation project that offers a very high level of certainty with respect to its benefits for wildlife. I hoped to bring to the Board assistance in areas that I have developed expertise in over my 25 years investing -- structuring transactions, performing due diligence and supporting pro-active and effective board-level guidance and controls.

What inspires you the most about Wild Tomorrow's mission?

I am inspired by the team at Wild Tomorrow and their passion to do the right thing for wildlife, for the communities in which they work, and for each other. I am also inspired by the fact that what Wild Tomorrow's ability to make a huge difference for the wildlife in the KwaZulu-Natal is not a “pie-in-the-sky” aspiration; it is well within our grasp.