National Geographic grantee Dr. Steve Boyes has been leading expeditions into Africa's wild places for more than ten years. A well-published ornithologist from the University of Cape Town's Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Steve grew up in South Africa and has dedicated his life to conserving Africa's wilderness areas and the species that depend upon them. He spent more than five years living, studying, and guiding in the Okavango Delta, where he worked as a camp manager while doing doctoral fieldwork on the Meyer's Parrot. Steve has also guided as far afield as the Middle Fork of Idaho's Salmon River and Mozambique's Machangula Peninsula. Today, he runs the Cape Parrot Project, which has received funding from the Geographic's Conservation Trust. The project aims to stimulate positive change for the critically endangered species through high-quality research and community-based conservation action. Steve's work takes him all over Africa, fighting the wild-caught bird trade, counting wetland birds in the Okavango Delta, and planting thousands upon thousands of trees in his forest restoration projects. His recent efforts in bird conservation have seen him appointed as a Director of the Wild Bird Trust, World Parrot Trust-Africa, and Africa Geographic. Steve loves sharing his passion for and deep knowledge of Africa's wild places and its inhabitants.