Linda Tucker’s inspirational journey since Maria’s initiation in 1991 has culminated not only in the setting up of the non-profit organisation to save the luminous White Lions, but also the creation of a completely unique and empowering LionHearted Leadership™ training, inspired by Maria’s living example of LionHeartedness. In every initiative, strategy, implementation, as well as long term vision, Linda and her team at the Global White Lion Protection Trust live by the vision and application of LionHeartedness: “that quality of fearlessness inspired by Love and Respect for the Natural World that enables us to transform our human world.” Linda Tucker’s Academy for LionHearted Leadership™, StarLion eco-cultural schools programs and recently launched Online Courses for LionHearted Leadership™ have ignited hearts around the world.

Linda Tucker’s ground-breaking work on the profound spiritual as well as ecological importance of the White Lions was deeply informed by ancestral knowledge systems, at the forefront of which was preeminent wisdom keeper, Credo Vusumazulu Mutwa, living library of Old African knowledge and keeper of the ancient records known as the “Great Knowledge”. Introduced to the great African sage by Maria Khosa, as Maria’s successor, Credo Mutwa went on to entrust wisdom of the White Lions meaning and importance into Linda Tucker’s care, as did wisdom keepers of 13 other indigenous African traditions. Her first book, Mystery of the White Lions, honours this great prophet, sharing with his permission, word-for-word, from the old African records. Credo Mutwa’s Plea for the sanctifying of the White Lions through national law has been read out by Linda Tucker in South African Parliament, as she continues to honour desperate plea for their protection in all her conservation efforts and sacred activism.

Conservation Legend famed for saving the White Rhino from extinction, Founder of the international wilderness movement, and advance guard of global conservation strategies based on deep spiritual rootedness in Nature’s sanctity and sovereignty, Dr Ian Player was a dear friend and mentor of Linda Tucker’s pioneering conservation efforts. Their shared love of Jungian theory and dream analysis, together with life-long commitments to indigenous knowledge systems, defined an eternal love of the great outdoors, as Dr Player wrote an impassioned Forward for Linda Tucker’s book, Mystery of the White Lions, and she joined him at speaker events around the globe. In his final years, Dr Ian Player became the Patron of the Global White Lion Protection Trust.