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Christiaan Mathys Bakkes (born 3 August 1965, in Vredenburg, South Africa) is a South African writer. He is the son of Cas and Margaret Bakkes and the brother of Marius, Matilde and Casparus. He is married to Marcia Ann Fargnoli, an environmental lawyer.

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He received a National Diploma in Nature Conservation and led an anti-poaching unit as part of his military service. For a time, he worked as a game ranger in the Kruger National Park, where during the early 1990s he was required to be involved in elephant culling, [1] a practice to which he developed ethical objections. In 1994 he suffered serious injury inside the park in a crocodile attack. Hereafter he commenced a new career in the Damaraland desert, where he acted as guide and conservation official for Wilderness Safaris . [1] [2] [3]

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