John Hare Email & Phone Number

School Farm, Benenden, Kent Tn17 4Eu, England

In 2000, to further its mission, the WCPF organised an inter-governmental meeting at which a Letter of Intent was signed by the Chinese and Mongolian governments pledging cooperation on wild camel protection in their respective countries. In 2001 the WCPF secured funding from the Global Environmental Facility to help the Chinese establish a 155,000 square kilometre nature reserve in China's former nuclear test area - the Lop Nur Wild Camel National Nature Reserve.In 2003 the WCPF established a captive wild camel breeding centre in Mongolia which is managed by the Mongolian Ministry of Nature and funded by the WCPF.In 2008 as a result of a sustained effort for genetic research by the WCPF, the wild camel was officially designated a "new and separate species" by the Veterinary University of Vienna, Austria - totally distinct from the double-humped domestic Bactrian camel from which it separated 700,000 years agoI have undertaken ten expeditions either of research or in order to fund-raise on behalf of the wild camel - six in China, two in Mongolia and two in Africa. Three were motorised and seven were undertaken with domestic camels.www.wildcamels.comwww.johnhare.org.uk

Nairobi

Publisher of UNEP's materials and then switched to wildlife conservation particularly the wild camel in China and Mongolia's Gobi deserts. My first expedition into the unexplored Chinese Gobi, the former nuclear test area, was sponsored by UNEP.

United Kingdom

Educational Publisher for Asia/Africa. Author of 33 educational supplementarity reader titles

Northern Nigeria

Employed by the British Government and the Northern Nigeria Government as an administrator in the Northern Nigeria/Cameroun border area which is now partially under the control of Boko Haram. Consequently I have a deep understanding of the historical background to the movement. I also visited and stayed in most of the towns and villages currently under their control and I walked 150 miles along the Mandara Mountains between Nigeria and Cameroun demarcating the line of the international border prior to independence. Lived for two years in the area now occupied by BOKO HARAM. I Lecture and write on the Historical Background to BOKO HARAM.