Tony Pooley

**Tony Charles (Mashesha) Pooley** (1938 – 2004) , Dan Afirka ta Kudu ne kuma dan kirkire-kirkire ne, mai ba da lambar yabo mai kiyayewa kuma daya daga cikin manyan hukumomin duniya akan kadawar Nilu .

An haife shi a Amanzimtoti, kwaZulu-Natal, Pooley ya kasance kwararren masanin ilimin kano tun yana matashi. Ya fara horon sa a matsayin mai kula da wasan na hukumar kula da wuraren shakatawa na Natal a Maputaland (yanzu arewacin KwaZulu-Natal, wanda kuma aka fi sani da Tongaland ) a cikin 1957, yana samun yawancin horon sa a matsayin masanin halitta daga masu gadin wasan Zulu da Thonga . Masu gadin sun nuna masa wani kwai na kada, suka tambaye shi ya tantance wane tsuntsu ne ya ajiye shi, don yin nishadi, wanda ya fara sha’awar kada. An rubuta aikinsa na farko a kan ilimin halittu da kiyayewa, tare da jin dadinsa na al'ada, a cikin littafinsa na farko, *Ganewar Mutumin Kadai* (Collins, 1982).

Pooley ya buga takardu da surori da yawa a cikin littattafai kan halayen kada, ya yi bincike na farko kan kula da mata masu juna biyu, da dabarun renon kada (duba Ƙarin Karatu, a kasa). Ya taimaka wajen tsara sabbin ka'idoji da ke canza matsayin kadarorin Nile daga  'vermin ' zuwa 'kare', kuma ya kasance memba na kungiyar kwararrun Crocodile IUCN . 

Ya tafi Italiya, Ostiraliya, Amurka, Papua New Guinea, Zambia da Zimbabwe yana ba da shawara kan kiyaye kada da noma. An yi fina-finai da yawa game da aikinsa, ciki har da *The Ndumu Story*, da kuma kyautar BBC ta lashe kyautar *Gently Smiling Jaws*, wanda Sir David Attenborough ya ruwaito. Pooley ya kafa wuraren bincike guda biyu na kada, daya a Ndumo Game Reserve, da Cibiyar Bincike ta St Lucia Crocodile, inda ya kuma tsara game da ilmantar da baƙi game da crocodiles da matsayinsu a cikin yanayin halittu. Ya sami digirinsa na MSc, a kan "Ecology of the Nile Crocodile in Zululand", daga Jami'ar Natal a 1982, duk da cewa bai kammala karatun sakandare ba.

Bayan ya bar Natal Parks Board, ya kafa babbar gonar kada mai zaman kanta a kudancin Afirka, Crocworld, kusa da Scottburgh a kudancin gabar tekun KwaZulu-Natal, wanda ya hada noman kasuwanci da ilimi. Bayan haka ya yi aiki a matsayin mai ba da shawara ga namun daji kuma ya yi lacca a Mangosuthu Technikon . A matsayin mai ba da shawara, Pooley ya yi aiki tare da ma'aikatan fim da yawa daga Amurka, Birtaniya, Faransa, Jamus, Afirka ta Kudu da sauran wurare, ciki har da Sashen Tarihin Halitta na BBC da Channel Discovery . Wadannan shirye-shirye da fina-finai sun hada da abubuwa na musamman akan kada, fim din huldar dan adam da birai masu tsini, da rubuce-rubuce kan batutuwan kiyayewa. Fim dinsa na karshe da ya yi wa BBC shi ne *Bacewar - Presumed Eaten*, wanda ke nuna nasarar da ya samu na kare martabar kada ta Nilu daga zamba ta inshorar rayuwa.  Ya kuma yi kuma ya buga rikodin sauti na namun daji, da kundin kiɗan Thonga . 

An yi la'akari da Pooley a matsayin daya daga cikin manyan masu kare dunes a Lake St. Lucia, yanzu wani bangare na Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park, Cibiyar Tarihin Duniya ta UNESCO .   Ya kasance shugaban kamfen na St Lucia, wanda ya taimaka wajen kare wurin dajin daga shirin hakar ma'adinan dune da aka tsara da kuma bayyana shi a matsayin wurin shakatawa na gado, sannan kuma ya hada kai da wani kamfen na hana shelanta wani bangare na gandun daji na Ndumo.   Ana ci gaba da wannan kamfen. Kokarin Tony a matsayin mai kiyayewa ya sami karbuwa ta hanyar kyaututtuka daga The Wildlife Society da Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife (tsohon Hukumar Natal Parks).

Shahararriyar littafin Pooley tabbas ita ce *Mashesha - The Making of a Game Ranger*, wanda Mawallafin Littattafai na Kudancin suka fara bugawa a cikin 1992. "Mashesha" ana iya fassara shi da asali daga Zulu a matsayin "Wanda yayi gaggawar ɗauka", mai nuni ga aikin Pooley wajen neman mafarauta .

Pooley ya mutu a karshen 2004. Matarsa Elsa ya bar shi,  mai zane wanda ya kwatanta Mashesha kuma ya buga takamaiman jagorori game da rayuwar shukar Afirka ta Kudu  da ’ya’ya uku: Simon (wanda kuma ke aiki a cikin kiyaye kada; musamman rikicin namun daji da zaman tare da ɗan adam. ), Justin (babban muhalli, zamantakewa, da gudanarwa na kamfanoni (ESG) tare da IFC) da Thomas (masanin kida: ethnomusicology da cognition music).

## Manazarta

## Hanyoyin hadi na waje

* Tsohon Tony Pooley, David Blake, Jaridar Kungiya ta Kwararru, Vol 23 No.4, Oktoba 2004-Disamba 2004
* Gano Wani Dan Kada Buga na biyu

## Kara karantawa

* Pooley, Tony, *Ganowar Mutumin kada* (1982) da bugu na 2 2018
* Pooley, Tony, *Mashesha - Yin Ranger Game* (1992)
* Babi a cikin Ross, CA da Garnett, S. (eds. ), *Kadawa da Alligators*, (Gaskiya Kan Fayil, Inc., New York)

Baya ga takardun kimiyya da yawa, labarai a cikin shahararrun mujallu da jaridu, da fosta *The Tony Pooley Guide to the Nile Crocodile da sauran African Crocodiles* (tare da John Visser) Tony kuma ya rubuta *Kwazulu/Natal Wildlife Destinations (Jagora zuwa Game Reserves,) Wuraren shakatawa, Wuraren Halitta masu zaman kansu, wuraren kiwon kiwo da namun daji na Kwazulu/Natal)* tare da gabatarwa ta Ian Player, (Masu Buga Littafin Kudancin, 1995).