REMEMBERING WILDLIFE

It was an early morning encounter with a young elephant in northern Kenya in 2014, which had been needlessly poached, that changed the life of Margot Raggett MBE - setting her on a path to combine her love of wildlife photography with conservation efforts to fight for the future of endangered animals.

- Girish Mallya

Margot says: "One morning, while staying at Laikipia Wilderness Camp, we came across a young elephant that had been poached. He had an arrow stuck in him, but he still had his tusks.

I was told poachers had shot him but he'd managed to run away and they hadn't been able to keep up with him, which means it took a few days for him to die.

"I was so incensed by what I saw that I started thinking about what I could do to turn that anger into something positive." She then spent several months persuading many of the world's best wildlife photographers to donate an image to a coffee-table book to raise awareness of the plight of elephants and to raise funds for conservation efforts to protect them.

She called the book Remembering Elephants - after hearing renowned conservationist Sir David Attenborough ask: "Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?"