Pamela Gale was born in about 1952 in Red Bank, New Jersey[1] She met and married an Indian restaurant owner while she was working at an all-night cafe.

She went to work for a pharmaceutical company whilst they shared their dream of owning a forest and her husband went into the mortgage business.

The couple first went to the Himalayas, but they were only allowed to buy 12 acres so they came south to start the SAI (Save Animals Initiative) Sanctuary Trust.

[2] The wildlife on their sanctuary includes Bengal tigers,[2] Asian elephants,[3] hyena, wild boar, leopards, sambhar and the Malabar giant squirrel.

[4] On International Women's Day in 2017, she was in New Delhi where she was awarded the Nari Shakti Puraskar by President Pranab Mukherjee at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.