Spouses and founders of Big Cats Initiative and Great Plains Conservation

“But I think that partnerships work best where it’s one plus one equals three or ten, rather than the same. …we don’t compete for life. I think we complement for life.”

Dereck Joubert

“We have a secret weapon and that it’s not just the two of us but we have a common goal and our third partner in this is nature and conservation, so we have a higher goal and it’s a shared on and it’s mutual.”

Dereck Joubert

“For us, via some magic dust, our purpose is like a piece of steel and we’ve sharpened it and sharpened it. And each long journey is just another stroke on the grindstone, and we’ve created a fine blade that’s really sharp and vital and alive, not dulled by the passage of time, but actually sharpened.”

Beverly Joubert