- Born
- Birth nameZwier Albertus Mangels
- Beginning during the production of World Safari Two, Alby and his sister, Maria Snel, founded DAD (Disabled And Disadvantaged children) and through this charity Alby designed a revolutionary new wheelchair that gave greater independence to paraplegics for decades to come and went on to win several design awards.
In more recent times Alby has been involved with building projects and feeding programs for the homeless and hungry in Micronesia. He has also built a sanctuary for injured and orphaned native animals on 2,500 acres in the Coorong (South Australia) where he personally planted over 5,000 trees over many years.
His social enterprise efforts have reached as far as the remote volcanic island of Tanna in the South Pacific where he supports a water project and humanitarian medical aid program.
He is Patron of the Australasian Primates Association, and passionate about all animal welfare and wildlife conservation, also supporting efforts by the Endangered Tiger Fund run out of the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia, and the South China Tiger project run out of China and South Africa.
In 2009, multi-awarded Hollywood veteran producer, Paul Mason, secured the rights to adapt Lynn Santer's authorised biography on Alby Mangels into a major motion picture, which is now in development along side plans for a new Alby-centric TV series and re-runs of the original Adventure Bound series.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Lynn Santer - official biographer and manager
- Alby has been invited to be "Principal for a Day" by Peter Adams of Pascoe Vale North Primary School in Melbourne, and in advance of accepting the position he will be undergoing a make-over with Melbourne based style consultant, Cindy Newstead.
- Travel hasn't satisfied my appetite for adventure - it has created new ones.
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