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ESSENTIAL DESTINATIONS

MONTH: SEPTEMBER 2006

Another OBE for animal welfare work

Alan Knight, chief executive of International Animal Rescue and chair of British Divers Marine Life Rescue, is the third animal advocate to receive the Order of the British Empire in 2006, following Daphne Sheldrick, founder of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant and rhino orphanage in Kenya, and Stella Brewer Marsden, founder of the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Association sanctuary in Gambia.

Earlier recipients include Care For The Wild founder Bill Jordan, now heading the Bill Jordan Wildlife Defence Fund (2005); Dogs Trust chair Clarissa Baldwin (2003); and Animals Asia Foundation founder Jill Robinson (1998).