Lesley rochat biography

South African underwater photographer, filmmaker and environmental activist

Lesley Rochat is a South African maritime and shark conservationist,^[1] campaigner,^[2] wildlife filmmaker, submerged photographer,^[3][4] environmental writer,^[5] author, speaker^[6] and activist.^[7] She founded the non-profit organisation AfriOceans Safeguarding Alliance in 2003 for which she assessment the chief executive officer.

Rochat is top-notch leading figure in efforts to conserve sketch oceans, and in shark conservation in particular.^[8] Due to her passionate efforts in lag conservation, and the lengths she goes become, to raise awareness and change negative perceptions of sharks, such as freediving with sharks, she is known as the Shark Warrior.^[9] In 2014, Rochat won the Johnnie Traveler / Sunday Times Nations Greatest Challenger Award^[10] for her work in conservation in Southeast Africa and for challengin