Growing up in America, conservation was simply apart of life. It was taught in school, promoted on the TV, experienced in field trips and family vacations. One of my first jobs was a clerk at a local department store and one of my duties was to issue hunting licenses to the sportsmen who would make there was to my home in the central Midwest. Basically, conservation is an industry, and for good or bad its very much a part of the social conversation in the US. The same isn’t the case for Tunisia. Please don’t get me wrong. Tunisians in general very much love nature and enjoy outings to the coasts and mountains. But the conversation about societies role in conservation is largely silent. That’s why I was so excited to meet Zakher and hear how he is playing an active role in calling the Tunisian public to engage in conservation, while doing what he can to influence Tunisian attitudes and policies towards the protection of it natural resources.

They Came Back: Zakher