Ratanakiri Safaris invite you on an unforgettable hunting safari in Tanzania.
Felix Barrado, Director
Felix Barrado Zabas born in Madrid, Spain on 06.05.1951 I speak Spanish, English, French, Russian (medium level) and I have extensive knowledge of Kiswahili, Fang and Baka.
I arrived in Mozambique on April 20, 1970. There I worked with the company Allen Wack & Shepperd for a year as a camp manager, two years as an assistant hunter and I obtained my professional hunter license in 1974 by passing an exam at the DEPARTAMENTO DE FAUNA BRAVIA.
In 1976, I arrived in Kenya to work with the company Siafu Safaris where I found the closure of the hunt in the country. I conducted a scientific expedition for six months through Africa to Cameroun, which allowed me to know French-speaking Africa. I collaborated for a season in the Central African Republic with the company Ebra Safaris and then travel to Ivory Coast, Liberia, Benin, Burkina Faso, etc. Until I decided to settle as a professional hunter in Cameroun.
The following year I learned the news of the political change in Equatorial Guinea and I went there where obtained a contract with the Government for the control of elephants in the country and at the same time hunting safaris. I stayed there for four years and in 1984 I returned again to Cameroun, where I collaborated with professional hunters Jacques Guin and Teddy Bereketti.
At the end of 1985 I founded Nsok Safaris, specializing in elephant and bongo hunting in the jungle, being the first professional hunter to open sports hunting in the Cameroun jungle. I have stayed there until 2013, combining with other companies in Sudan, Congo, Tanzania and 3 years in the former USSR.
In recent years, I have been trying to re-open the hunt in Cambodia, and Laos, but I have not been able to carry out the project due to the strong opposition of the anti-hunting, animalist groups, etc. and their unlimited funds to corrupt and stop the project in any way. Currently I am again in Tanzania where I founded Ratanakiri Safaris.