1.He's a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). He's lived in
central Africa for six years.
2.Fay has worked on several major conservation projects in Africa and America. He's
counted all the elephants in the central Africa country of Chad-twice! He's walking
nearly 3,000 kilometres across North America. He spende so much time out door that
he hasn't slept in a bed more than 50 times in the last ten years!
3.A few year ago, he survived a plane crash! And on one trip, he came face to face
with a very angry elephant which attacked him. Amazingly, his injuries weren,t
life-threatening. Less dramatically, but just as seriously, he's had malaria in
africa many times and on one occasion he nearly died.
4.Fay travels light-he usually just takes a T-shirt, a pair of shorts and his
favourite footwear, sandals. His most recent pair of sandals lasted 2,000
kilometres before they fell apart! The few items he never travels without include
his penknife, a lighter and a sleeping mat.
5.Fay wants to show people how beautiful and precious the planet is so thet will take care of it. And he succeeds. His work has drawn attention to conservation issues and made people art. After he started work on the elephant project in Chad, the number of elephant deaths fell significantly. And in Gabon, the government has created thirteen new national parks covering 26,000 square kilometres of forest.