Save me from the Lion's Mouth

James Clarke (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2013 | 2nd edition
Struik Nature (Verlag)
978-1-920544-75-1 (ISBN)

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Save Me From the Lion's Mouth" investigates the increasing conflict between people and wildlife in Africa and what needs to be done about it. It describes the human suffering and perceptions of those who live outside the reserve fences among man-eaters and marauders yet are excluded from the economic benefits accruing from the wildlife around them. It provides evidence of a growing resentment among rural communities, especially near game reserves and warns how it is threatening the existence of Africa's game reserves. The book suggests that many in the Northern Hemisphere who support African wildlife conservation are blind to the seriousness of the situation. Some African states - notably Kenya and Tanzania - adopt wildlife policies to please donor countries from whom they receive millions of dollars. Thus government policies, many of them patently disastrous and certainly detrimental to rural Africans and to wildlife, are dictated from middle class homes across Europe and America. Fortunately there is a growing international lobby that is seeking solutions.

James Clarke has been writing for newspapers since the age of 16, first in Birmingham then in Johannesburg. He developed an early interest in environmental affairs, urban and rural, and writes about science and African wildlife, as well as humour. His first book, Man is the Prey (1969) was a US best seller. He has written some 30 titles since, and was one of the three founders of wildlife conservation group, the Endangered Wildlife Trust.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.9.2013
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-920544-75-5 / 1920544755
ISBN-13	978-1-920544-75-1 / 9781920544751
Zustand	Neuware