Ian Player
Ian Cedric Audley Player DMS (15 Maris 1927 – 30 Nuwamba 2014) ɗan Afirka ta Kudu ne mai kiyayewa na ƙasa da ƙasa. Ian Player yana daya daga cikin fitattun masu kare muhalli da masu kula da muhalli a duniya. Ya samu raunukan sa ne a lokacin da ake fama da tashe-tashen hankula a lokacin da ake kerawa da gwada wuraren da Afirka ke da kariya. Tare da tawagarsa, ya kuma fara aikin ceton jinsunan da ke cikin hatsari lokacin da suka ceci farar karkanda daga halaka (Operation Rhino).

Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haife shi a Johannesburg, ɗan wasan ya sami ilimi a Kwalejin St. John, Johannesburg, Tarayyar Afirka ta Kudu kuma ya yi aiki a Sashen 6th Armored da ke haɗe da Sojojin Amurka 5 a Italiya 1944–46.

Aikin kiyayewa na ɗan wasa ya fara ne da Hukumar Natal Parks a cikin 1952 kuma yayin da Warden na Umfolozi Game Reserve, ya jagoranci manyan tsare-tsare guda biyu:

 Operation Rhino - wanda ya ceci 'yan tsirarun tseren farar karkanda .
 Matsayin da aka karewa don yankunan Umfolozi da St. Lucia Wilderness (yanzu da ake kira iSimangaliso Wetland Park World Heritage Site) - Yankunan daji na farko da za a yanki a Afirka ta Kudu da kuma a nahiyar Afirka.

Mai kunnawa shi ne wanda ya kafa Makarantar Jagorancin daji,  wanda har yanzu yana gudanar da ainihin hanyoyin jeji har yau.

Wannan ya haifar da samuwar Gidauniyar daji, Gidauniyar Wilderness SA, Gidauniyar Wilderness UK, Gidauniyar Magqubu Ntombela ba tare da ambaton Majalisar Daji ta Duniya ba, wanda aka fara taro a 1977.

A cikin 2004 Playeran wasan sun haɗa kai da Sarah Collins, 'yar kasuwa, mai hangen nesa, kuma mai fafutukar yancin mata, don ƙirƙirar 'Take Back The Future'. Manufar ita ce a gwada matasan Afirka ta Kudu na yau da kullun cikin wannan fage na kiyaye jeji. 'Take Back The Future' ya tara kuɗi ta hanyar sayar da tsutsotsin duniya, da noma da sayar da kayan lambu a kasuwannin manoma. Ta hanyar kafa ƙungiyoyin matasa sun sami damar ƙirƙira da haɓaka ra'ayi a cikin al'ummomin Afirka ta Kudu.
 

Daga cikin oda da kyautuka da yawa, an baiwa dan wasa lambar yabo ta Knight of the Order of the Golden Ark da kuma Ado for Meritorious Service (yabo mafi girma a Jamhuriyar Afirka ta Kudu lambar yabo ta farar hula a lokacin). Ya kasance wanda ya samu digirin girmamawa biyu:

 Doctor na Falsafa, Honoris Causa daga Jami'ar Natal .
 Doctor of Laws (LLD) (hc) daga Jami'ar Rhodes . 

Dan wasan ya mutu a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba 2014 sakamakon bugun jini.  Ya kasance ɗan'uwan ƙwararren ɗan wasan golf Gary Player .

Ma'ajiyar tarihin 'yan wasa da abin da ya bari na dan uwansa Marc Player ne kuma ya sarrafa shi, wanda ya kaddamar da ayyuka da dama da suka hada da littattafai (Into the River of Life) wani fim mai tsayi, jerin talabijin da aka gina a kusa da shirin canza Rhino na Operation da THE PLAYER INDABA mai neman duniya. “’Yan wasa don tara kudade don yakar bacewar nau’ukan dabbobi daban-daban. An kuma kafa gidauniyar Ian Player Foundation a matsayin ƙungiyar agaji da ke taimakawa kiyaye yanayi, gwagwarmayar namun daji da ilimin muhalli.

Manazarta

Hanyoyin haɗi na waje 

 http://www.ianplayerfoundation.com
 WILD Foundation
 Wilderness Foundation SA
 Wilderness Foundation UK da labarai game da shi akan shafin su
 Makarantar Jagorancin Wilderness
Haifaffun 1927