Professional Hunter
Dean Kendall
A third-generation Zimbabwean with decades of professional hunting experience across Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique.
Contact UsBorn
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Qualified
1993
Experience
Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Mozambique
The story
A life shaped by wild country.
Born in Bulawayo in 1969, Dean grew up in a family that owned a game ranch in western Zimbabwe. After boarding school and a B.Com degree, he began his apprenticeship with Peter Johnstone of Rosslyn Safaris in the Matetsi Safari Area in 1990 and qualified in 1993.
Dean spent much of the 1990s in Chirisa before working in Dande from 1999 to 2006, where he renewed an earlier friendship with Buzz. His knowledge of the Zambezi Valley has been strengthened by many return seasons in the area.
His wider career includes extensive hunting across Tanzania and Mozambique. The experience, calm judgement and natural-history knowledge gathered across those landscapes are central to the way he guides today.
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