The consultants he has hired to create his wildlife park were responsible for South Africa's Pilanesberg National Park, the game reserve attached to the resort and gambling complex of Sun City.
The first of the three parks we visited was Lake Manyara National Park, a lush nature reserve teeming with all kinds of animals, including giraffes, elephants, exotic birds and baboons.
In the 1990s, the first white rhinos were imported from South Africa and the results of the breeding programme saw the animals transferred to other reserves in Kenya, including Lake Nakuru National Park, Sweetwaters Game Reserve and Lewa Downs Conservancy.
Hotels have booked up around prime viewing locations, including the capital Lusaka, the Luangwa game reserve and Kafue National Park.
If approved by the International Dark-Sky Association (IDSA), the skies above the 400 sq mile (1, 050 sq km) of the Northumberland National Park could become a Dark Sky Reserve.
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And providing there were no fresh cases, Snowdonia National Park Chief Executive Iwan Hughes, the reserve would be completely re-opened in early summer.
Five Singita properties are located near the best animal observation areas in all of South Africa: the Sabi Sand Reserve and the Kruger National Park.
But in recent decades their habitat has been reclassified as part of the Namib-Naukluft National Park, Africa's largest game reserve, bringing them into greater contact with humans.
High reserve requirements, which force banks to park much of their capital with the Central Bank, helped too.
Located far south in South America , the Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1978.
Keep an eye out for the small furry creatures tucked into the kelp from any coastal hiking trail, such as in Point Lobos State Natural Reserve in Carmel or Wilder Ranch State Park in Santa Cruz.
The biosphere reserve, which is also designated as national park, is not populated.
Rich Laburn, of the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa's Kruger National Park, told BBC News there are simple things to look out for - the most obvious being paw prints.
In addition to population monitoring, volunteers check for breakage in the 2m-high, 20km-long, 1m-deep anti-dingo and dog fence that surrounds the park, and fill up water containers placed around the reserve for the wombats each day.
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Sutton Park attracts about 2m visitors a year and was designated as a national nature reserve and a site of special scientific interest by English Nature in 1997.
Just six days before he scored a thrilling hat-trick for the reserve team in a 3-3 draw against Newcastle at St James' Park.
Volunteer caretakers, who need to be familiar with living in the bush, managing a remote reserve and knowing what to do if there is an emergency, are required to live in the park for about a month at a time, reporting on bush fires and recording data taken from cameras at the wombat watering stations.
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