|
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > Conservation of wildlife & habitats > Endangered species & extinction of species
In this book the author examines the illegal wildlife trade from
multiple perspectives: the historical context, the impact on the
environment, the scope of the problem internationally, the
sociocultural demand for illegal products, the legal efforts to
combat it, and several case studies from inside the trade. The
illegal wildlife trade has become a global criminal enterprise,
following in the footsteps of drugs and weapons. Beyond the
environmental impact, financial profits from the illegal wildlife
trade often fund organized crime groups and violent gangs that
threaten public safety and security in myriad ways. This innovative
volume covers several key questions surrounding the wildlife trade:
why is there a demand for illegal wildlife products, which actors
are involved in the trade, how is the business organized, and what
are the harmful consequences. The author performed ethnographic
fieldwork in three key markets: Russia, Morocco, and China, and has
constructed a detailed picture of how the wildlife trade operates
in these areas. Conversations with informants directly involved in
the illegal business ensure unique insights into this lively black
market. In the course of his journey the author follows the route
of the illegal wildlife trade from poor poaching areas to rich
business districts where corrupt officials, legally registered
companies, wildlife farms and sophisticated criminal organizations
all have a share. A fascinating look inside the world of poachers,
smugglers and traders.
Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis
accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use
advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to
save species. Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and
social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation.
Drawing upon sources ranging from science to science fiction, it
focuses on the stories we tell about extinction and the meanings we
ascribe to nature and technology. The use of biotechnology in
conservation is redrawing the boundaries between animals and
machines, nature and artifacts, and life and death. The new
rhetoric and practice of de-extinction will thus have significant
repercussions for wilderness and for society. The degree to which
we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic
aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries
and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds.
|
Eating Apes
(Paperback, New Ed)
Dale Peterson; Foreword by Janet K. Museveni; Photographs by Karl Ammann
|
R726
R650
Discovery Miles 6 500
Save R76 (10%)
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
|
"A beautifully written book about an ongoing tragedy of global
significance. Dale Peterson's account sweeps across broad issues of
conservation and animal welfare that are linked to human welfare
and should be the concern of everyone everywhere."--Edward O.
Wilson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "On Human Nature
"I applaud Dale Peterson for taking on this challenging subject
with courage and honesty. In identifying development, in the form
of logging, as the primary threat to biodiversity in Africa, this
book gets it right, and I recommend it most highly to anyone who
wishes to be let in on the secrets of Africa's biggest conservation
crisis."--Marcellin Agnagna, former Director of Wildlife and
National Parks for the Republic of Congo
"The African Great Apes, our closest living relatives, are in
imminent danger of extinction. "Eating Apes, "in beautiful prose,
exposes the enormity and complexity of this conservation crisis. It
took great courage to gather and present this information. You must
read this book."--Jane Goodall
"It is with joy that I welcome this beautifully written and
persuasive book that I pray should be read not only in America and
Europe but also in Africa. We are facing an environmental crisis
because of those few political and corporate opportunists who take
advantage of weak political institutions lacking legitimacy for the
indigenous peoples of Central and West Africa."--Ajume H. Wingo,
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Massachusetts,
Boston, and Research Fellow of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard
University
"What is happening to our nearest relatives, the African great
apes, in their last remaining strongholds, is appalling, yetmost of
us know nothing about it. We should all thank Dale Peterson and
Karl Ammann for this powerful book, which should end that
ignorance. Everyone should read it, and then insist that their
governments act before it is too late."--Peter Singer, author of
"Animal Liberation "and "Ethics "
"In "Eating Apes, Dale Peterson becomes the Hercule Poirot of
the tropics. When he heard that in the equatorial forests apes have
become meat for loggers, Peterson set off to part the curtain on a
world of jungle tragedy where cultures collide, where innocence is
eroded by money and power, and where conservation all too often
collapses into politics. What he found is shocking, but his
detective work means that ignorance is no longer an excuse for the
world's inaction. Will the apes survive? "Eating Apes is a
brilliant, intimate guide to the challenge--and a launching-pad for
the rescue mission."--Richard Wrangham, author of "Demonic Males:
Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
"Peterson and Amman's book is a bold and brave j'accuse of the
logging and conservation organizations who are spearheading this
latest attack. You must read this book. And then you must follow
the advice of Peterson and Amman as to what you can do to help stop
it."--Roger Fouts, author of "Next of Kin
|
Rainforest Frogs
(Paperback)
Susan E Newman; Illustrated by Mark Lerer; Caley Vickerman
|
R324
Discovery Miles 3 240
|
Ships in 10 - 15 working days
|
|
|
You may like...
Turtle Bay
Saviour Pirotta
Paperback
R188
Discovery Miles 1 880
We Are Family
Lucy Reynolds
Paperback
R236
R220
Discovery Miles 2 200
|