Meet Peter 'Paddy' Gordon, a boundary-breaking SANParks veteran who dedicated 34 years to conservation and community growth in SA.
at the Golden Gate Highlands National Park.
Having negotiated the successful integration between the community and the park, he embarked on another adventure, this one to Table Mountain. “I had two giants as parents. My father was a school principal, but he never stopped being a teacher, and he was always with my mother doing community development.
“So that was a critically important start of my life. Everything I do regarding people and community development, I learned from growing up in my house, with my parents as amazing leaders.” “From a very early age, I knew I would go into conservation, even when it was not the thing for black and coloured people.apartheid
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