Africas surviving rhinos are seriously threatened. This timely book considers all kinds of human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals, offering a significant contribution to our understanding of wildlife in the African continent.
Africas surviving rhinos are seriously threatened. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by sports hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to the edge. This book considers human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals charting hunting for food and hides, and then hunting for horn to meet external demand for this much-coveted commodity, as well as peaceful coexistence, over the course of three millennia.
With only two females alive in a closely protected reserve in Kenya, the Northern White Rhino is on the brink of extinction. The Southern White Rhino was increasing in numbers, but poaching in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia has reduced the population to fewer than 20,000, while Black Rhino hovering around the 5,0006,000 mark, also with the danger of extirpation everywhere but in parts of eastern and southern Africa.
Many books have been written on poaching and the decline of the rhino, often from a very personal, engaged viewpoint. This volume takes the reader into important new territory, showing how human agency has led to the situation we now face. Covering the history of commercial and sporting exploitation of rhino, it brings the picture up to date with an overview of contemporary conservation and anti-poaching operations. The urgent book is a significant contribution to our understanding of wildlife on the African continent.
Recenzijas
Powerful -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review * Africas Threatened Rhinos is a sweeping and fascinating history of the continents rhinos and a clarion call for a rethink of failed wildlife trade policies. -- Ed Stoddard * Daily Maverick * ...this is a tour de force, a book of solid, well-researched conservation history, by a man who has read the literature, been in the field, and spoke to the right people. Anyone wanting all the facts on humanitys exploitative relationship with these two magnificent African animals, and their descent towards extinction, will not find a better documentation and assimilation of the information than in here. -- Stephen Spawls * Journal of East African Natural History *
Introduction
1. Evolution, status and behaviour
2. From 20,000 bce to European penetration
3. European penetration and occupation
4. Rhino populations decimated by the arrival of Europeans and firearms in
southern Africa
5. The modern trade in rhino horn from 1960 to the present, legal and illegal
6. From independence to 2005
7. Southern Africa, 19602005: armed conflict, crime and conservation
8. East and Central Africa, 200624
9. Southern Africas poaching storm
10. What next?
Notes
Abbreviations
Index
Professor Keith Somerville was a writer and researcher on humanwildlife coexistence and conflict, notably in Africa. A former BBC World Service journalist, he taught at the University of Kent, was a member of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. In 2016 he was awarded the Marjan-Marsh Award by the Marjan Centre for the Study of War and the Non-Human Sphere and the Marsh Trust. This award, for his book Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa, is given annually to someone who has made an invaluable contribution to an area where conflict and conservation intersect. Jackals, Golden Wolves and Honey Badgers was published in November 2022.
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