![]() That is how to handle stress, according to Matson, who says the corporate world resembles nature. Out in the field, when she gets into scrapes, she finds that the key is to stay calm and breathe her way through it. "This is definitely not a 9-5 job." Because many of her safari guests are on overseas time zones, she sometimes makes late-night and early-morning calls and finds herself on WhatsApp at 5am. The work often finishes late into the night. The University of Queensland zoology doctorate holder describes herself as a one-woman team – her safari firm has no permanent staff except herself, but she outsources jobs including website development, accounting and on-ground safari co-ordination to trusted companies. She has also written conservation books including Planet Elephant and Elephant Dance. Tammie Matson wakes with a start to find two elephants standing beside her tiny tent. Inspired by the trip, she decided she wanted to be a wildlife conservationist.Īfter gaining a University of Queensland first-class honours degree in zoology in 1999, she went on to pursue further study, lecture on the environment at James Cook University's Singapore campus, and co-found the wildlife charity Let Elephants Be Elephants, which debuted in January 2013. Planet Elephant Who Says Elephants Cant Dance Toomai of the. ![]() When she was 15, her property valuer father, who also works as a stud cattle breeder, took her to Zimbabwe on safari. She was raised in Townsville, North Queensland. ![]()
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