Anthony was on his reserve - called Thula Thula, or “peace and tranquillity” in the Zulu language - when the United States led coalition forces into Iraq in March 2003 to topple dictator Saddam Hussein. For that feat, he became known as “the elephant whisperer.” Anthony took in and tamed a herd of wild elephants that otherwise would have been killed. Anthony convinced the rebels not to kill the endangered northern white rhinoceros, which lived in the dense forest under the group’s control. Anthony muscled his way into diplomatic negotiations with the Lord’s Resistance Army, the militant group from northern Uganda that is led by accused war criminal Joseph Kony. He founded an environmental group, called the Earth Organization, and convinced neighboring Zulu tribes to put aside their differences where African animals were concerned. In the mid-1990s, after forays into insurance sales and real estate development, he bought a private game reserve about a two-hour drive from Durban. Anthony, a self-described “bush child” with no formal training in zoology, spent the better part of his life trying to shelter wild animals from the ravages of human conflict. The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Francoise Malby-Anthony. invasion of 2003 and led an animal rescue effort that united warring soldiers, mullahs and Iraqi civilians, died March 2 in Johannesburg. Lawrence Anthony, a South African conservationist who charged into the Baghdad Zoo during the U.S.
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