Tippi Benjamine Okanti Degré (born 4 June 1990) is a French woman best known for spending her youth in Namibia among wild animals and the local tribes.

Tippi Degré was born in Windhoek, Namibia,[2] to wildlife photographer-filmmaker parents and was raised in the bush for the first ten years of her life in Southern Africa.

During her childhood in Namibia, Degré befriended animals she lived among including a 28-year old elephant Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, lions, giraffes, a banded mongoose, an ostrich, meerkats, a cheetah, a caracal, snakes, a giant bullfrog and chameleons.

[5] In 2000, Degré wrote the novel Tippi: My Book of Africa, based on her life in Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Madagascar[6] where she lived among wild animals and with tribes people, the San Bushmen and the Himbas.

[3][4] In 2001, she was named the Godmother of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) with the French actor, producer and director Jacques Perrin.