At 16, Nadav Ossendryver has designed an iPad app, saved a lioness's life, cracked an invite to the local Google offices and had more than a million people watch his YouTube videos.
From his Johannesburg home, he is able to detail animal movements in the Kruger National Park on his website, www.latestsightings.com and app.
The Grade 10 King David High School pupil's idea was sparked by a trip to the park in December last year. Borrowing a MacBook computer, he spent two weeks, including many sleep-deprived nights, teaching himself to develop an iPad app.
A new updated app for android and iPhones is expected to launch this week.
His website and app have allowed tourists in the park to alert Ossendryver to a lioness in distress because of a tight tracking collar. He notified rangers.
He was also able to tell rangers about a wild dog caught in a hunter's snare.
"The other dogs were trying to help him," said Ossendryver.
How does he juggle updating sightings and videos on multiple social media platforms with school work?
"School comes first. It has to," he said, before excitedly turning to the computer to choose the best video of the day - a leopard plummeting out of a tree with a monkey in its mouth.
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