Don Pinnock

DR Don Pinnock is an environmental and investigative journalist with Daily Maverick and former editor of the travel magazine Getaway. He is a criminologist and historian by training and has written or co-authored 18 books, many of them on environmental issues. These include The Last Elephants and The Last Lions, which address the alarming state of the lion and elephant populations in Africa. He has won two Mondi Awards for his environmental columns, the City Press Non-Fiction Award for his book Gang Town, and his novel on Khoisan magic, Rainmaker, was shortlisted for the

European Union Literary Award.