Ofir Drori (Hebrew: אופיר דרורי; born 26 April 1976) is an Israeli writer and activist based in Central Africa.
[1] He is the founder of LAGA – the Last Great Ape Organisation, an enforcement non-governmental organization that fights corruption in order to bring about to the arrests and prosecutions of major wildlife criminals dealing in endangered animal species.
LAGA's award-winning model for a wildlife law enforcement NGO has started in Cameroon[2] and is now replicated in the Republic of the Congo,[3] Gabon,[4] Togo,[5] Ivory Coast,[6] Senegal,[7] Uganda[8] and Guinea.
[12] In December 2013, Drori was attacked by a 3-meter long Nile crocodile while vacationing along the Omo River in Ethiopia, but he managed to escape death.
[14] This incident is reminiscent of Australian eco-activist Val Plumwood who also survived a crocodile attack in 1985, and she subsequently wrote of it in her landmark 1996 essay "Being Prey".