Within a generation, the wilderness of Zululand, with its
spectacular array of mammals, birds and plants, came near to
extinction. This is the saga of that decline and of the heroic and
successful attempt, through establishing game reserves and
enforcing environmental protection policies, to save one of
Africa's surviving environmental gems. Enough elephant tusks to
fill a thousand ox wagons - that's how much ivory alone was shipped
out of Durban bay between the 1820s and the 1880s. It amounted to
at least a million kilograms, or a thousand tons, of ivory and
represented the slaughter of 20 000 elephant. Piles of elephant
tusks were then a common sight at the dockside in Port Natal. But
that was not all - rhino horn; buck horn; buffalo, hippo and
wildebeest hide; lion, leopard and wildcat skin; as well as live
wild animals, all were exported, much coming from the last
surviving great African kingdom in southern Africa, Zululand. The
three pillars of the Zululand and Maputaland wilderness were the
wild game, the avifauna, particularly game birds, and the
indigenous forests. This title charts both the onslaught on them
and the efforts made to preserve them from the destruction that
seemed imminent and inevitable. But the title also tells the story
of the local African population and their attitudes; it looks at
the white and African hunters who pursued the game; and it traces
the foundation in the 1890s of the first Zululand game reserves and
their struggle for survival against all the odds. Had not the
pioneers of Zululand conservation embarked on this early
conservation movement, the Zululand wilderness with its tremendous
diversity of fauna and flora would have disappeared completely -
and with it one of Africa's brightest jewels.
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