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Prince William<\/a> has paid tribute to British zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who died at the age of 83 on Monday. His death was confirmed in a statement released by his Save the Elephants group<\/a>.<\/p>\n Iain, who founded Save the Elephants in 1993, was also among the first to introduce GPS tracking and aerial survey techniques. The statement referred to him as a “pioneering force” in elephant conservation, who “revolutionised our understanding\u2026 through his groundbreaking research”. In a heartfelt social media message, William wrote: “I am so sad to hear of the passing of Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a man who dedicated his life to conservation, and whose life\u2019s work leaves lasting impact on our appreciation for, and understanding of, elephants.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He added: “The memories of spending time in Africa with him will remain with me forever.<\/p>\n “My thoughts go out to Iain\u2019s family, especially his wife Oria and children Saba and Dudu”, before signing off with his initial, “W”.<\/p>\n Save the Elephants CEO, Frank Pope, said: “Whether sitting quietly among elephants, poring over maps of their movements, or circling above a herd in his beloved aircraft, that glint in his eye was there.<\/p>\n “He never lost his lifelong curiosity about what was happening inside the minds of one of our planets most intriguing creatures.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He is survived by his wife Oria, their two daughters and six grandchildren.<\/p>\n During his career, Iain and Oria published two award-winning books about elephants.<\/p>\n The expert was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1992 and a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.express.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prince William has paid tribute to British zoologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who died at the age of 83 on Monday. His death was confirmed in a statement released by his Save the Elephants group. Iain, who founded Save the Elephants in 1993, was also among the first to introduce GPS tracking and aerial survey techniques. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2192637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[423263,423264,423265,23068,22769],"class_list":["post-2192636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-iain-douglas-hamilton","tag-iain-douglas-hamilton-death","tag-iain-douglas-hamilton-news","tag-prince-william","tag-royal-family"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Prince-William-pays-beautiful-tribute-after-death-of-friend.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2192636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192638,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2192636\/revisions\/2192638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2192636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2192636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2192636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}