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This is what drew Delia and Mark Owens, both wildlife biologists, to one of the remotest desert regions in Africa, the Kalahari. Idaho was the place Delia and Mark decided to call home, after spending the last 24 years of their lives working to conserve the last of the great animals of the African plains.
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- Who Was Delia Owens Before She Was A Best Selling Novelist?
- A Murder Caught on Camera Remains Unsolved
- Why Are Delia and Mark Owens Wanted For Questioning?
For two decades, Delia Owens worked as a wildlife conservationist in Africa. Owens grew up in Georgia and studied zoology at the University of Georgia, where she met Mark Owens, now her ex-husband, and became stepmother to his son Christopher Owens. In the 1970s, Delia and Mark Owens relocated to the remote Kalahari Desert of Botswana to establish ...
Delia, Mark and Christopher Owens are all wanted for questioning in the 1995 murder of an alleged poacher in Zambia. The incident first came to light in 1996, when the ABC News program “Turning Point” aired a report titled"Deadly Game: The Mark and Delia Owens Story."In the report, cameras capture the shooting of a suspected poacher; the murder air...
At the time of the murder, the Owenses were deeply involved in anti-poaching efforts. At North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, the Owenses got caught up in the region’s poaching wars due to the widespread slaughter of elephants for their valuable ivory tusks. Mark Owens ran anti-poaching patrols, bringing teams of scouts into the bush to confront ...
The book, written in alternate chapters by the husband-and-wife team, follows Delia Owens's efforts to help establish programs aimed at farming, fishing, and tourism, which will help the locals survive and prosper. In his chapters, Mark Owens describes his dangerous night patrols with game wardens to stop poaching.
Jul 30, 2019 · Mark and Delia Owens in North Luangwa National Park in Zambia in 1990. ... Mark and Delia Owens first arrived in Zambia in 1986 after getting kicked out of Botswana, where they had made themselves ...
In Hammerskjoeld Simwinga. …1986 by Mark Owens and Delia Owens, American zoologists who had gone to the region to study lions but instead turned their attention to the rampant poaching of elephants in North Luangwa National Park. With funding from a German zoological society, they set up antipoaching patrols and began community development….
"A remarkable story beautifully told...Among such classics as Goodall's In the Shadow of Man and Fossey's Gorillas in the Mist."--Chicago Tribune Carrying little more than a change of clothes and a pair of binoculars, two young Americans, Mark and Delia Owens, caught a plane to Africa, bought a thirdhand Land Rover, and drove deep into the Kalahari Desert.
