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Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching

Author : John Hanks
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 177022730X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching written by John Hanks and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aggressive poaching of rhinos needs to be countered with equal aggression. So argued Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, the founder president of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), at a 1987 meeting with John Hanks, conservation expert and WWF’s head in Africa. The result was Operation Lock, a secret initiative funded by Prince Bernhard and staffed by former SAS operatives. Operation Lock set up headquarters in Johannesburg and extended its reach into neighbouring states: Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Swaziland and Mozambique. Its operatives planned to train game rangers, to pose as rhino horn traders in order to entrap buyers, and to expose the kingpins who were driving the trade. It was a controversial approach, all the more because it was working within apartheid South Africa in the late 1980s. When the existence of the project was finally leaked, WWF denied any involvement, and John Hanks took the fall. In Operation Lock and the War on Rhino Poaching, John Hanks finally tells the story of these explosive events from 25 years ago. As a leading international authority on conservation, he also deals with the scourge of rhino poaching up to the present, and gives powerful and controversial criticism of some of the current policies to curb poaching.

Rhino War

Author : Major General (Ret ). Johan Jooste
Publisher : Ingwe Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781922825032
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Rhino War written by Major General (Ret ). Johan Jooste and published by Ingwe Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2012 retired South African general Johan Jooste was parachuted into the seemingly unwinnable war against rhino poaching in the Kruger National Park.With poaching spiralling out of control, Jooste was given the mandate to 'go military', to convert Kruger's ranger corps into a para-military force capable of taking the fight to the poachers.Aged 60, white, and a veteran of his country's apartheid-era wars, Jooste's controversial appointment was immediately met with resentment and outright hostility by elements of South African National Parks, the police, and even the military he had served with.With the media, government, conservationists, human rights activists and the people of South Africa looking over his shoulder, Jooste had to battle opponents within and without to see through his strategy for turning the tide of rhino poaching.Rhino War tells how Jooste, facing an unprecedented assault on a single national park and a species, took a demoralised force of men and women and turned them into arguably the best anti-poaching unit on the African continent.Told through his eyes and stories of the courage and grit of rangers who daily risked their lives to protect wildlife in the face of a wily and determined foe, this is a story of heroism, sacrifice and determination.Humbly, honestly and decisively, Jooste tells of the successes and failures of his bold strategy, and shares his vision for the future.

Four Years for the Rhino

Author : Kamalajaṅga Kum̐vara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789937233507
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book Four Years for the Rhino written by Kamalajaṅga Kum̐vara and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poacher's Moon

Author : Richard Peirce
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 1775841790
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Poacher's Moon written by Richard Peirce and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When wildlife conservationist Richard Peirce learnt about the targeting of three private game reserves in the Western Cape in 2011 and the butchery of some of their rhinos, he embarked on a crusade to raise public awareness about the horrors of rhino poaching. This is the story of Higgins and Lady, two rhinos from the farm Fairy Glen that defied the odds by surviving a brutal attack. Peirce keeps the reader spellbound as he recounts the series of attacks and their aftermath in chilling detail: the unbearable savagery, suspect police work, shady characters, mysterious happenings and death threats. Reading like a crime thriller, this account of dogged survival, compassion and triumph – along with desperate strategising to outwit the poaching mafia – will have wide appeal. Colour images throughout, taken as the drama unfolded, bring the subject even more vividly to life.

The Rhino Keepers

Author : Clive Walker
Publisher : Jacana Media
ISBN 13 : 1431404233
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Rhino Keepers written by Clive Walker and published by Jacana Media. This book was released on 2012 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conservation of the rhinos in southern Africa is described in this account of these fascinating animals, the reasons behind their historical decline, the myths that surround them, and the resurrection of the rhinoceros horn trade. Few animals face as violent, as well organized, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. But across the African continent, they are being slaughtered on a daily basis, and approximately 5,000 black rhinos and 21,000 white rhinos are all that prevent their extinction. This real account of the rhino wars is a harrowing story, underscoring the enormous challenges that lie ahead for conservation in a world where rhino horns sold by the gram raise double the price of gold and are more expensive than cocaine in the end-user Asian markets. Arguing that protecting Africa's rhinos is of utmost importance, it questions the management of natural heritage and implores readers to recognize their role as rhino keepers of the future.

Operation Rhino

Author : John Gordon Davis
Publisher : Michael Joseph
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Operation Rhino written by John Gordon Davis and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 1972 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ivory, Horn and Blood

Author : Ronald Orenstein
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 1770853200
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Ivory, Horn and Blood written by Ronald Orenstein and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 McKenna, 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.

Security and Conservation

Author : Rosaleen Duffy
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300230184
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Security and Conservation written by Rosaleen Duffy and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns "There are few keener observers of international biodiversity conservation than Rosaleen Duffy. With a ferocity of purpose, she investigates the tenuous connection and nuances among illegal wildlife trade, terrorism threats, and national security."--Steven R. Brechin, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Debates regarding environmental security risks have generally focused on climate change and geopolitical water conflicts. Biodiversity conservation, however, is increasingly identified as a critical contributor to national and global security. The illegal wildlife trade is often articulated as a driver of biodiversity losses, and as a source of finance for organized crime networks, armed groups, and even terrorist networks. Conservationists, international organizations, and national governments have raised concerns about "convergence" of wildlife trafficking with other serious offenses, including theft, fraud, corruption, drugs and human trafficking, counterfeiting, firearms smuggling, and money laundering. In Security and Conservation, Rosaleen Duffy examines the scale, practical reality, and future implications of the growing integration of biodiversity conservation with global security concerns. Duffy takes a political ecology approach to develop a deeper understanding of how and why wildlife conservation turned toward security-oriented approaches to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.

Killing for Profit

Author : Julian Rademeyer
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 9781770223349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Killing for Profit written by Julian Rademeyer and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are concerned about the survival of an endangered animal species and the environment in general, this is the one book you'll want to read this year.

Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa

Author : Cathy Haenlein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351370812
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa written by Cathy Haenlein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poaching, Wildlife Trafficking and Security in Africa examines the most common perceptions of poaching and wildlife trafficking as security threats, and examines their basis in reality.

The Last Two

Author : Bostjan Videmsek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538178478
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Last Two written by Bostjan Videmsek and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, as the species has fallen victim to poaching, wars, climate change, and Asian economic boom to become functionally extinct, as well as the story of the scientists and conservationists around the world fighting to save the species through scientific innovation.

Ivory

Author : Keith Somerville
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787382222
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Ivory written by Keith Somerville and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade ban had capped poaching and would lead to a long-term fall in demand. But why the new upsurge? The answer is not simple. Since ancient times, large-scale killing of elephants for their tusks has been driven by demand outside Africa's elephant ranges - from the Egyptian pharaohs through Imperial Rome and industrialising Europe and North America to the new wealthy business class of China. And, who poaches and why do they do it? In recent years lurid press reports have blamed mass poaching on rebel movements and armed militias, especially Somalia's Al Shabaab, tying two together two evils - poaching and terrorism. But does this account stand up to scrutiny? This new and ground-breaking examination of the history and politics of ivory in Africa forensically examines why poaching happens in Africa and why it is corruption, crime and politics, rather than insurgency, that we should worry about.

National Park Science

Author : Jane Carruthers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107191440
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book National Park Science written by Jane Carruthers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa's national parks during the twentieth century.

Great Tuskers of Africa

Author : Johan Marais
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780143530466
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Great Tuskers of Africa written by Johan Marais and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when the African elephant roamed the entire continent at will and was able to live out its long life in harmony with its environment. The bull elephants who became known as great tuskers, the hundred-pounders of colonial times, were plentiful. But throughout the ages man has relentlessly hunted these majestic beasts for their ivory and this, combined with the loss of its habitat to ever-increasing human populations, brought of the continent. In the twenty-first century a great tusker will only be found in a conservation area, and it will be a rare and unforgettable sighting. In Great Tuskers of Africa Johan Marais and David Hadaway share their passion for the giants of the wilderness providing a celebration in words and pictures of past and present tuskers, and capturing the grace and dignity, and the mystery and romance of these extraordinary animals. '. . . a grand parade of the rarest of the elephants, the magnificent old tuskers of Africa . . . ' Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Keystone of 22 SAS

Author : Alan Hoe
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526745062
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Keystone of 22 SAS written by Alan Hoe and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-03-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This British military biography tells the full story of the Lieutenant Colonel who helped turn the 22nd SAS into the world’s leading special forces unit. Despite its successes during World War II, the future of the British Army’s Special Air Service was uncertain for years afterward. In the 1950s, it was resurrected as the 22nd SAS Regiment to take part in the Malayan Emergency, and over time evolved into one of the British military’s most important units. This renaissance was brought about by a small group of highly motivated officers. Of these, Lieutenant Colonel John Woodhouse stood out for his energy, expertise, and courage. Written by an SAS insider, this biography demonstrates how Woodhouse played a pivotal role in transforming the 22nd SAS into an elite fighting force. Woodhouse led the regiment through campaigns in Oman, Borneo, Radfan and South Arabia, as it built its unrivaled reputation. After leaving the Army, Woodhouse became a sought-after counter-terrorist consultant taking an advisory and active role in operations worldwide. While Colonel Sir David Stirling publicly acknowledged Woodhouse as a cofounder of the 22nd SAS, the full story of his role has not been widely recognized. As this fascinating book reveals, without his efforts there would probably be no 22nd SAS today.

The Shotgun Conservationist

Author : Brant MacDuff
Publisher : Timber Press
ISBN 13 : 1643260146
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Shotgun Conservationist written by Brant MacDuff and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the intersection of hunting and conservation, a man shares his personal journey from staunch anti-hunter to compassionate, ethical hunter, weaving together a larger history of humans, animals, the environment, and our food systems. The Shotgun Conservationist doesn’t teach us how to hunt, it explores why we should hunt. As public lands remain imperiled, factory farms pollute the earth and subject animals to inhumane conditions, and global uncertainty presses us all to be more self-sufficient, there has never been a better time to take up hunting. Writer, natural historian, and public speaker Brant MacDuff has done just that. An avid animal lover and raised as a non-hunter, MacDuff started his journey intending to investigate the claim that “hunting is conservation.” So convinced, he now holds a hunting license in four states and gives lectures on the positive impact it has on conservation efforts nationwide. Armed with years of experience in the field and a deep love for the natural world, MacDuff tells the provocative, humorous, and insightful story of how he became a hunter. Along the way, readers meet a cast of colorful characters and learn the firsthand research that helped change Brant’s mind. You may not book a hunting trip after reading The Shotgun Conservationist, but you’ll have a new perspective on and appreciation for those that do.

Safari Nation

Author : Jacob S. T. Dlamini
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821440888
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Safari Nation written by Jacob S. T. Dlamini and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Safari Nation opens new lines of inquiry in the study of national parks in Africa and the rest of the world. The Kruger National Park is South Africa’s most iconic nature reserve, renowned for its rich flora and fauna. According to author Jacob Dlamini, there is another side to the park, a social history neglected by scholars and popular writers alike in which blacks (meaning Africans, Coloureds, and Indians) occupy center stage. Safari Nation details the ways in which black people devoted energies to conservation and to the park over the course of the twentieth century—engagement that transcends the stock (black) figure of the laborer and the poacher. By exploring the complex and dynamic ways in which blacks of varying class, racial, religious, and social backgrounds related to the Kruger National Park, and with the help of previously unseen archival photographs, Dlamini’s narrative also sheds new light on how and why Africa’s national parks—often derided by scholars as colonial impositions—survived the end of white rule on the continent. Relying on oral histories, photographs, and archival research, Safari Nation engages both with African historiography and with ongoing debates about the “land question,” democracy, and citizenship in South Africa.