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I left calves grazing, now I look after lions

The conditions into which Dr Tuqa Jirmo (above) was born into were less than ideal for academic success, but that did not stop him. “Where I was born and brought up we had no school and we would move around with livestock in search of pasture and water,” begins Jirmo who is now 48 and holds a doctorate degree in conservation.

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