Johan D.

Background

About Johan D.

With over 13 years of combined permanent and contract experience at Insect Science, contributing to the development and deployment of semiochemical-based agricultural solutions across South Africa and neighboring regions has been a core focus. The role encompasses market strategy, sales, and technical product support, in addition to managing distributor relationships and ensuring timely product availability. Collaborative efforts have been directed toward registration trials and compliance processes, ensuring product effectiveness for diverse agricultural stakeholders. Passionate about sustainable agriculture, our team champions innovative crop management techniques tailored to meet the needs of distributors and farmers in varied bushbaby through and through, this love has only grown through the years, leading to a B.Sc.HON. Degree in Ecology, that has been applied in the Rehabilitation Conservation Industry and Agriculture. Consulting across 5 continents and more than 17 countries on subjects as varied as agriculture, ecology, antipoaching, rehabilitation, animal husbandry & training, home defence etc. Serving in a Mounted Unit and working with Homeland Security, lead to many years of experience as First Responder at the scenes of robberies, farm attacks and other crime scenes.ShaTranj saw the light when we started incorporating our Arabian horses in operations and eventually a dream came true, when the rare working dog breed, the Dogo Argentino, were added to our program.Now, providing not only selected working dogos, but also backup at poaching scenes and farm attacks, active involvement in anti poaching, snare removals, wildlife rehabilitation & relocation; as well as training of dogos and developing new methods/products to train the modern anti poaching/sniffer dog.