For over 25 years Dereck and Beverly have made wild Africa home, dedicating their lives to understanding and protecting its majestic creatures. Through research, filmmaking, and publishing, the Jouberts have brought us new insights into the social structures and predator/prey relationships amongst buffalo, hyenas, leopards, elephants and numerous other wild animals across Africa, but it is Africa's gravely endangered lion (recent estimates count not more than 10,000 lions living in the wild today) that most completely captures their hearts and keeps their focus razor sharp in the race to save them from impending extinction.

The Jouberts' many years with lions have yielded books and widely praised documentary films such as Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas, Ultimate Enemies: Elephants and Lions, Reflections on Elephants, and Lions of Darkness—a body of work that has won four Emmys, two Chris awards, the Grand Teton award, and a George Foster Peabody award.

Recent projects include Relentless Enemies: Lions & Buffalo, a documentary shot over two intense years as the Jouberts lived among a threatened pride of lions and a large buffalo herd in the Duba region of Botswana's Okavango Delta. The film includes dramatic first ever footage of lions hunting in water, demonstrating to biologists worldwide the surprisingly adaptive nature of these animals. Their latest film, Eye of the Leopard, documents a young leopard's survival in wild Africa over a period of three years, beginning when she was abandoned by her mother eight days after her birth.

Coexisting in Africa
In Africa, where the largest numbers of wild animals still thrive, man has created islands of wildlife habitat. As animals roam from island to island in response to instinctual migration, hunting and mating seasons, a host of threats await--from everyday realities such as civilization with its hum of farming, commerce and recreation to the brutal reality of poaching. If we are to ensure the survival of these magnificent animals we must create safe passages between these sanctuaries. Join the Jouberts for an up-close look at wild Africa and some proposed solutions to this problem.

Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo
Dereck and Beverly share highlights of the intense two years they spent living among a pride of threatened lions and a large buffalo herd in the Duba region of Botswana's Okavango Delta. Using award-winning images and video clips from their book and film Relentless Enemies: Lions and Buffalo, the Jouberts reveal the remarkable survival dance being played out in Okavango's isolated Duba Plains, showing dramatic first ever footage of lions hunting in water.

Eye of the Leopard
In their latest film, Eye of the Leopard, the Jouberts capture their intimate experience documenting a young leopard's survival in wild Africa over a period of three years, beginning just eight days after her birth.