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Beverly & Dereck Joubert Photographers, Filmmakers, Naturalists

Photo: Lions

Photograph by Beverly Joubert

Photo: Beverly and Dereck Joubert
Photograph by Graham Boynton

For over 25 years the Jouberts have made wild Africa home, dedicating their lives to understanding and protecting its majestic creatures. Through extensive research, filmmaking, and publishing, the Jouberts have brought us new insights into the social structures and predator/prey relationships among Africa’s wild animals.

Recently, these National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence have focused on the dire plight of the big cats—lions, tigers, cheetahs, and leopards—at a time when lions number fewer than 20,000 and may cease to exist in the wild beyond 2050. Their new book, Eye of the Leopard, was released September 22, 2009.

The Jouberts’ work has been honored with five Emmy awards, The Foster Peabody award, the Jules Verne award and, in 2008, the World Ecology Award, previously given to HRH The Prince of Wales, Jane Goodall, and Jacques Cousteau, among others.

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo is a documentary film and book created over two intense years as the Jouberts lived among a threatened pride of lions and a large buffalo herd in the Duba region of Botswana’s Okavango Delta. The film includes dramatic first ever footage of lions hunting in water, demonstrating to biologists worldwide the surprisingly adaptive nature of these animals. The Jouberts’ latest award-winning film Eye of the Leopard documents a young leopard’s survival in wild Africa over a period of three years and demonstrates the leopard species compassionate nature and advanced intelligence as well as its hunting prowess.

Presentation Topics

Big Cats: Countdown for Survival
The very survival of four big cat species—lions, tigers, cheetahs and leopards—now hangs in the balance. In this sweeping look at five decades of decline, through arresting video and unparalleled images, the Jouberts show the cats’ intelligence and compassion as well as their fierce dominance as kings of the jungle, making a heartfelt plea for our participation in their survival.

Coexisting in Africa
In Africa, where the largest numbers of wild animals still thrive, man has created islands of wildlife habitat. As animals roam from island to island in response to instinctual migration, hunting and mating seasons, a host of threats awaits—from everyday realities such as civilization with its hum of farming, commerce, and recreation to the brutal reality of poaching. If we are to ensure the survival of these magnificent animals we must create safe passages between these sanctuaries.

Learn More About Beverly & Dereck:

National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence

Wildlife Conservation Films

Photo: Dereck & Beverly Joubert

Listen to Radio Interview With Dereck & Beverly Joubert

Boyd Matson Interviews Dereck & Beverly for NG Weekend Radio Show

  • Photo: Lions
    Dance of Death in Okavango

    Isolated on a marshy island in Botswana’s Okavango Delta, a pride of lions and the Cape buffalo on which they prey have adapted unique characteristics as they maintain a delicate dance of hunter and hunted.

  • Photo: Lion
    Photo Gallery: Killer Pride

    Rarely witnessed behavior marks the predator-prey relationship of a pride of lions and a herd of Cape buffalo on a marshy island in Botswana’s Okavango Delta.

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