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Angola’s Unique Giant Sable Gets Second Chance
"This is a big honour. It will put the project as well as Angolan conservation and biodiversity on the map and make people think of Angola in ways other than disease, war and corruption,"
"It is a critically endangered sub-species, which means it is important internationally, but it has such an incredible history and mythology behind it, and as the national symbol, it is very important for the country."
- Pedro Vaz Pinto, the man behind the Giant Sable Conservation Project
"It is a critically endangered sub-species, which means it is important internationally, but it has such an incredible history and mythology behind it, and as the national symbol, it is very important for the country."
- Pedro Vaz Pinto, the man behind the Giant Sable Conservation Project
Luanda, Angola - There could hardly have been a better omen for Angola after nearly three decades of war: last year, the revered giant sable antelope, unique to the central African country and feared wiped out, was spotted again.
Now, Pedro Vaz Pinto, the man behind the Giant Sable Conservation Project, has been short-listed for an award from the prestigious Whitley Fund for Nature, to be announced on May 9 in London.