Signor Fiorotto

Italian farmer, south of Manyara who had arrived in 1958 and cleared several thousand acres of bush and planted maize....

... Night after night elephants and rhino destroyed his [Signor Fiorotto] crop - some 400 elephants had been shot. Professor Bernhard Grzimek, when visiting Iain Douglas-Hamilton at Manyara, offered, on behalf of the Frankfurt Zoological Society, to raise funds to buy the farm so as to extend the Park boundaries.