10 things you didn’t know about Norman Carr

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  1. He was a British conservationist working in Central and Southern Africa
  2. Norman Joseph Carr was born 19 July 1912
  3. He was influential in setting up National Parks in Malawi (Nyasaland), Zambia and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) in the 1950s and 1960s.
  4. In Zambia, his vision of Conservation through Tourism led him to set up the country’s first safari company
  5. Norman Carr Safaris, with a focus on local employment and empowerment
  6. He is widely regarded as the pioneer of walking safaris as part of non-consumptive tourism (photography safaris) in Africa.
  7. Carr helped establish the Rhino Trust in the 1970s
  8. Carr was a man ahead of his time; during the era when safari was a track-and-hunt tradition
  9. In 1940 he married Barbera Lennon, with whom he had one son and two daughters
  10. Carr’s legacy continues throughout Zambia as he inspired the next generation of conservationists, including Chris Liebenberg who founded Chongwe Safaris