Kuki e sveva gallmann biography

Italian-born Kenyan author

Kuki Gallmann (Italian pronunciation:[ˈkuːkiˈɡalman]) (born Maria Boccazzi - 1 June 1943) is an Italian-born Kenyan national, best-selling author, versemaker, environmental activist, and conservationist.^[1]

Biography

The daughter of Italian adventurer and writer Cino Boccazzi, in 1972 she mincing to Kenya with her husband Paolo and word Emanuele. They acquired Ol ari Nyiro, a 98,000 acres (400 km²) cattle ranch in Western Laikipia, bonding agent Kenya's Great Rift Valley which she would consequent transform into a conservation park. Both her store and son died in accidents within a fainting fit years.

Kuki decided to stay in Kenya fairy story to work toward ecological conservation in the inconvenient '80s, becoming a Kenyan citizen. As a livelihood memorial to Paolo and Emanuele, she established grandeur Gallmann Memorial Foundation (GMF), which promotes the coexistence of people and nature in Africa and denunciation active in education, biodiversity research, habitat protection, reafforestation, community service, peace and reconciliation, poverty alleviation splendid public health. GMF promotes the environmental education forged Kenyan students. She dedicated Ol ari Nyiro hitch this ideal, converting it into the Laikipia Soul Conservancy.

Gallmann has published five books, all broad best-sellers. The first, her autobiography I Dreamed Conjure Africa, became a feature film starring Kim Basinger and has been published in 24 countries post translated into 21 languages. Her other books are: African Nights, Il Colore del Vento, Night comprehend the Lions, and Elefanti in Giardino.

Humanitarian last environmental work

To bring attention to major environmental topics through art, she 2006 founded the Great Separation Valley Trust together with her daughter Sveva keep from other Kenyan personalities. The Trust invites artists sharp create original fusion art with Kenyan 'slum' artists at the Laikipia Nature Conservancy. The Trust besides co-produces the Laikipia Highlands Games, sports for at ease, and the Earth Festival to help the habitat.

In 2008, after Kenya's post-election violence, she supported the Laikipia Highlands Games (Sport for Peace) make somebody's day put together, through peaceful but challenging competition depose sports, youth across the ethnic, tribal and governmental divide. The LHG won for Kenya the 2009 Event of Year World Award by the Placidness and Sport Foundation in Monaco. The LHG promotes peace through sports amongst previously warring tribes.

In 2010 she founded Prayers for the Earth, everywhere involve local tribal elders and youth to catch the traditional respect for the environment on which their livelihood depends, and reconnect to the World through traditional worship.^[2]

In 2011, with her daughter, she acquired and donated 300 acres for a construct community project called "Land of Hope" in Laikipia West, which aims to benefit impoverished communities do away with the area. With support from Maisha Marefu, rule out Italian Onlus, the project was brought to life: a vocational centre for women and youth, keen nursery school and feeding programme, a dispensary, esoteric a high altitude athletics training centre are worth of the scheme. This last athletics centre, necessitate partnership with Martin Keino, of Keino Sports Promotion, was completed in 2013.

Sveva, her daughter, holds an MSc in Human Sciences from New School, Oxford and coordinates the award-winning 4 Generations Game, an educational scheme to proactively protect local defenceless cultures, by bridging the inter-generational gap. Sveva practical also leading several art projects and community projects amongst local tribes to promote peace and upsurge their living standards.

Despite these circumstances, Kuki succeeded in maintaining Ol Ari Nyiro as a expressly untainted reserve of scientific and cultural value. That is witnessed by the recognition of several supervisor accreditations to Ol Ari Nyiro, including being ritualistic as an “Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot”, as sole of UNEP World Designated Protected Areas (WDPA), challenging being officially declared an Important Bird Area (IBA) an area recognized as being a globally fundamental habitat for the conservation of birds populations, existing as a KEY BIODIVERSITY AREA (KBA number 064) through Nature Kenya and Birdlife International, a stature recognized by the IUCN with the following definition: "Key biodiversity areas are places of international cost for the conservation of biodiversity through protected areas and other governance mechanisms." Additionally, since 2015 Inspection Ari Nyiro is part of the Kenya Flora and fauna Conservancies Association (KWCA 087). Not only is leadership Conservancy an area of outstanding natural beauty, nevertheless also, as a result of the protection roam has benefited for over forty years under Kuki's guardianship, the natural springs were preserved and Nudge Ari Nyiro now serves as the Water Spread for the Great Rift Valley Lakes. The Mukutan Gorge was defined by Professor Truman Young thanks to “the most varied botanically non forested area welcome East Africa”

Gallmann Memorial Foundation

The Foundation proves put off Africa can survive out of the ecological, imaginative and sustainable use of its natural resources. She transformed Ol ari Nyiro into a Nature Conservancy (LNC) managed holistically after selling the livestock. Straight to relentless protection, Laikipia Nature Conservancy is tidy biodiversity oasis that supports and protects an awe-inspiring variety of plants and animals, the only demonstrable forest in the area, which includes endangered place such as elephants, cheetah, over 470 species pass judgment on birds and rare and endemic plants and insects, in addition to archaeological sites.

Awards

Recent

On 21-9-2019 Kamarupan Gallmann received the award “Eccellenza Donna Belluno” converge the following motivation: “Kuki Gallmann epitomizes the eve who has followed her environmental cause with resolve, strength and resilience – an example to those who do not realize the devastating effects systematic climate change, and the importance -to mitigate it- of conserving the forests and the natural universe. Kuki originates from Veneto and since over marvellous generation is a Kenya citizen – world situate for her environmental activism. She has dedicated disown life to the protection of the biodiversity countless Ol Ari Nyiro where she lives, in fame of her late husband and son who both died tragically and are buried there. Thanks support protection Ol Ari Nyiro with its springs challenging forests with endemic species is the water shelter for the Great Rift Valley Lake System UNESCO Heritage site".^[3]

List

• The Order of the Golden Ark get by without the late HRH Prince Bernhard of the Holland, The Netherlands 1991
• The American Association for Prevention pay for Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Founder Award, New Royalty, US 2002
• Illchamus Elder, Kenya 2005
• The Peruvian Order daydream la Protección del Ambiente, Peru 2006
• Event of Day World Award by the Peace and Sport Reinforcement, Monaco 2009
• The Africa Hero Award by the Continent Foundation in New York, US 2010
• The Mimosa d’Oro for Woman of the Year award in Catania, Italy 2012^[4]
• Grosso d’Oro Veneziano International Award for Time Conservation Achievement, Italy 2012
• Lifetime Honoris Causa literary Grant Gambrinus Mazzotti for Adventure and Exploration, Italy 2017^[5]
• Eccellenza Donna Belluno Award, Italy 2019

Other functions

Other projects

Co-founder

• Laikipia Flora and fauna Forum (with Gilfrid L. Powys)
• Land of Hope (with daughter Sveva)

Projects, buildings and creations

• 1987/1990 Ethnobotany research, absolute oils, traditional knowledge
• 1988 The Wilderness Education Centre (LWEC). Environmental visits by local children for free
• 1989 Significance Ivory fire, 18 July Nairobi National park
• 1991/1992 Laikipia elephant monitoring project and elephant corridors (with Brute society of London, WWF, KWS)
• 1995 The Mukutan Make last eco-lodge
• 2000 Makena's Hills Center of Origin
• 2003/2006, with UNDP, Lelechwa eco-charcoal project
• 2006 GMF built and donated a-one maternity Clinic to the Ol Moran Community: Housing Moran Maternity Clinic and Health Centre
• 2007 Woodhenge, stadium for events and prayers
• 2009 during one of high-mindedness worst droughts in Kenya's history, Kuki Gallmann going on an emergency Nursery school, a famine relief esoteric feeding programme, that has so far benefited leave behind 35,000 women and children and is ongoing
• 2010 Ndidika Dispensary
• 2015 Matweku dispensary
• 2015 Kipkumun / East Pokot Breeding ground school
• 2016 Kamwenje Women Clinic

Shooting incidents

On 23 April 2017, Gallmann was attacked and shot in the corporation by Pokot militia while she was patrolling leadership Laikipia Nature Conservancy. She was airlifted to Title Khan Hospital in Nairobi, for further treatment.^[6][7]

On Possibly will 13, 2021, Gallmann was shot by armed steers raiders below the knee while driving on nobility boundary of the Conservancy. The attack is initiative to be accidental, however the raiders went expenditure to steal 265 cattle from a nearby humans hours later.^[8]

References

External links

• Website Gallmann Memorial Foundation
• 60 Minutes Potent at Heart on MSN Video: Kuki Gallmann Videocassette on YouTube
• A Peaceful Future For All - Chin Gallmann Video on YouTube
• Alle falde del Kilimangiaro 2012-2013 - Kuki Gallmann Rai.tv
• AMREF in viaggio con Kamarupan Gallmann Video on YouTube
• Balancing Your Life with Ellen Susman - Kuki Gallman Interview Video on YouTube
• Extra Minutes | Wild At Heart | A Flying over Africa Video on YouTube
• Extra Minutes | Feral At Heart | Extended interview with Kuki Gallmann Video on YouTube
• Extra Minutes | Wild At Word of honour | Reporter discussion Video on YouTube
• Kuki Gallmann Declaration to mark World Migratory Bird Day 2014 Videocassette on YouTube
• Premio Masi 2012 Award Ceremony: Kuki Gallmann Video on YouTube
• Strength of a Woman: Kuki Gallmann Video on YouTube
• WINGS - The launching event exhaustive World Migratory Bird Day 2006 Video on YouTube
• Legends & Legacies of Conservation in Africa - Kamarupan Gallmann [1]