Adobe DRM
Meticulous research, chilling facts…. an important and much needed book. — Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute If it is understanding you seek, turn these pages. — Virginia Mc Kenna, OBE, Founder, The Born Free Foundation If you care about elephants and rhinos, and the poaching onslaught that threatens their extinction in the wild, this is the book for you. — Ian Redmond, OBE, Ambassador, UN Great Apes Survival Program As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Over sixty percent of Africa’s Forest Elephants have been killed by poachers since the turn of the century. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese One-horned
Rhinoceros and the Western Black rhino have become extinct in the last decade, and the Northern White Rhinoceros, the largest of them all, barely survives in captivity. This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the traffic in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn has far-reaching implications not only for these endangered animals, but also for the human victims of a world-wide surge in organized crime, corruption and violence. Since the worldwide ban on commercial ivory trade was passed in 1989, after a decade that saw half of Africa’s elephants slaughtered by poachers, Ronald Orenstein has been at the heart of the fight. Today a new ivory crisis has arisen, fuelled by internal wars in Africa and a growing market in the Far East. Seizures of smuggled ivory have shot up in the past few years. Bands of
militia have crossed from one side of Africa to the other, slaughtering elephants with automatic weapons. A market surge in Vietnam and elsewhere has led to a growing criminal onslaught against the world’s rhinoceroses. The situation, for both elephants and rhinos, is dire.
Rhinoceros and the Western Black rhino have become extinct in the last decade, and the Northern White Rhinoceros, the largest of them all, barely survives in captivity. This alarming book tells a crime story that takes place thousands of miles away, in countries that few of us may visit. But like the trade in illegal drugs, the traffic in elephant ivory and rhinoceros horn has far-reaching implications not only for these endangered animals, but also for the human victims of a world-wide surge in organized crime, corruption and violence. Since the worldwide ban on commercial ivory trade was passed in 1989, after a decade that saw half of Africa’s elephants slaughtered by poachers, Ronald Orenstein has been at the heart of the fight. Today a new ivory crisis has arisen, fuelled by internal wars in Africa and a growing market in the Far East. Seizures of smuggled ivory have shot up in the past few years. Bands of
militia have crossed from one side of Africa to the other, slaughtering elephants with automatic weapons. A market surge in Vietnam and elsewhere has led to a growing criminal onslaught against the world’s rhinoceroses. The situation, for both elephants and rhinos, is dire.
€10.99
Table of Content
Table of Contents Acronyms Foreword by Iain Douglas-Hamilton, OBE Introduction PART ONE: What Happened? CHAPTER 1: The Living Elephants CHAPTER 2: The Living Rhinoceroses CHAPTER 3: Ivory and Luxury CHAPTER 4: Not an Aphrodisiac CHAPTER 5: What Makes Poachers Poach? CHAPTER 6: CITES and the First Ivory Crisis CHAPTER 7: The Ivory Ban CHAPTER 8: Rhinos under Fire PART TWO: What Went Wrong? CHAPTER 9: Re-Opening the Trade CHAPTER 10: New Markets for Horn CHAPTER 11: Behind the Surge CHAPTER 12: Rhinos and Prostitutes CHAPTER 13: War on Elephants CHAPTER 14: The Last Rhinos CHAPTER 15: Corruption, Theft and OrganizedCrime PART THREE: What Can Be Done? CHAPTER 16: Coming to Grips with Poaching CHAPTER 17: Should Trade Be Legalized? CHAPTER 18: Dealing with Demand CHAPTER 19: The Future POSTSCRIPT: The 2013 CITES Meeting Sources Index
About the author
Ronald Orenstein ; Foreword by Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9781770853201 ● File size 5.2 MB ● Publisher Firefly Books ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2804800 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
Requires a DRM capable ebook reader
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
12,612 Ebooks in this category
