Project Leaders
Southern African Explorer

Peter Bradford - Country Director - South Africa

South African born and bred, Peter joined GVI in July 2004 as the Karongwe Expedition Leader. His roles and responsibilities have expanded over the years and he now oversees both the Karongwe and Venetia bases, the SANParks internship programme and various other GVI projects in the country. He came to GVI with over three years experience guiding and managing safari lodges in the Timbavati and Sabi-Sands Game Reserves bordering the Kruger National Park. He is a level 3 guide with the Field Guides Association of South Africa (FGASA) and a registered South African nature guide. Peter has a National Diploma in Forestry and worked in the Kwazulu-Natal Midlands and Drakensberg region managing sustainable forests for four years before moving into eco-tourism and conservation. He is well travelled having spent two and a half years backpacking in Europe, North- and South America. He’s a qualified EFR instructor, has his advanced weapons handling certificate and, apart from English, also speaks Afrikaans and Zulu.

Kim Roques - Founder and Director

Kim is an ecologist and project and organizational manager with an MSc in Conservation & Applied Ecology. He has an intimate knowledge of southern Africa, its biodiversity and its people. During the past decade he has initiated a number of conservation and rural development projects in southern Africa. He has managed a National Park, led a wildlife research department and published papers in a number of regional and international journals. He has also managed a Global Environment Facility and World Bank funded conservation and rural development program.

Johannes Haasbroek - Project Leader

Johannes hails originally from South Africa where he was raised with a close affinity with nature. He studied political science, development studies and anthropology, later moving on to nature conservation. Over the past 10 years he has worked in various parts of the conservation sphere in Southern Africa, from game reserve management, professional hunting, tour guiding, reserve development, anti poaching, guide training, rural development and more. Over the past six years he has been living in Namibia, first working with Save the Rhino Trust, developing systems to get conservation independent of outside funding. In this time he witnessed the expansion of the elephant populations into the south, and realized he should apply a multi-angled approach to help solve the problem. Hence the creation of the project. Between conservation work he runs an expedition company, and leads wilderness expeditions on foot in support of conservation projects.