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Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka Quotes

b. 1970 Uganda

Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (born 8 January 1970) is a Ugandan veterinarian and founder of Conservation Through Public Health, an organisation dedicated to the coexistence of endangered mountain gorillas, other wildlife, humans, and livestock in Africa. Kalema-Zikusoka was Uganda's first wildlife veterinary officer and was the star of the BBC documentary, Gladys the African Vet.In 2009 she won the Whitley Gold Award for her conservation work.

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People poach because they’re hungry, they have no other alternative.

We have already disrupted the natural way of life.

I am glad that the One Health approach is being seen as a viable approach to conservation, that’s great.

If you make the community feel that you care about them, then there’s less need to fight them.

Disease transmission goes in both directions.

Follow your dreams and the rest will follow. Being a social entrepreneur is often a journey of hills and valleys, and very fulfilling if you always keep your goals in sight.

The wildlife authority was established in an era of fences and fines in the ’50s.

La société n'encourage pas les femmes à entreprendre et à se mettre en danger

Finally, happiness is…
Being true to yourself and leaving the world better than you found it…. .

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.