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	Robin Hurt

The son of the late Lt. Col. Roger Hurt D.S.O., Kenya Game Warden, Robin was born in London in 1945 and grew up on the Hurt Family ranch on the shores of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley. By the age of 9 Robin was already hunting Big Game on the ranch.

Robin was educated at Kenya’s premier school, The Duke of York, before serving his apprenticeship with Ker and Downey Safaris. At the age of 18 Robin was a fully licensed Professional Hunter. He hunted with Tanganyika Wildlife Corporation in 1963 and with Uganda Wildlife Corporation in 1964 and 1965. Robin was a full time Professional Hunter with Ker and Downey up to 1973 when Robin founded Robin Hurt Safaris in Kenya. In 1984 Robin founded Robin Hurt Safaris (Tanzania) Ltd.

Robin has hunted professionally throughout Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Central African Republic, Botswana, Zambia, Ethiopia and Zaire. His clients from these safaris hold many world class Rowland Ward and Safari Club International Big Game records. He is vice-president and Secretary General of the African Professional Hunters Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the Tanzania Hunting Operators Association. He is an Executive Committee Member of the Tanzania Professional Hunters Association.

In 1990 Robin, together with the late Mr. Joseph F. Cullman 3rd, set up The Cullman and Hurt Community Wildlife Project to promote wildlife and habitat conservation through proper sustainable utilization of a renewable wildlife resource by the involvement of the local communities in Tanzania. This project now has international recognition and is considered to be one of Tanzania’s greatest conservation successes.

When not hunting Tanzania Robin can either be found hunting in Botswana or Namibia, traveling within the USA and Europe or partridge shooting in Spain and pheasant shooting in Devon, England. Robin is an avid wildlife art collector and keen photographer. Robin has 5 children and his 2 sons, Derek & Roger, are following in their Father’s footsteps. Recently Robin wrote a definitive work on dangerous game entitled “Hunting the Big Five”.


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