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- catalog abstract "In a book often shocking, always passionate and inevitably controversial, Raymond Bonner brings desperately needed illumination to one of the most important and emotional issues of our time: the threat to Africa's wildlife, and especially to the elephant. In cutting through prevailing misinformation to documented truth, he makes abundantly clear that unless we address the needs of Africans in their poverty and despair - instead of attempting to impose culturally biased Western solutions - the people will out of necessity destroy the wildlife, no matter how much Westerners protest. For Westerners, elephants are the stuff of exotic safaris and television nature shows. But it is the Africans whose land has been taken to create the parks, whose children are killed and whose subsistence farms are destroyed by elephants run amok, whose ecosystems are ruined by oversized elephant herds in countries like Kenya that can't support them (something we've heard little about). Bonner reveals and documents for the first time the ways in which some wildlife organizations suppress facts and ignore opinions of forward-thinking conservationists - opinions that might get in the way of good public relations. Examining these organizations as no one has done before, he has obtained internal documents that contain cautionary revelations: in one wildlife group, for example, a scientific consensus to oppose an ivory ban fell victim to expediency - the ban was supported with a campaign that played to the emotions for fear that otherwise fund-raising would suffer. Bonner finds hope in Africans who are practicing "sustainable utilization," whereby they profit from the animals and therefore want to protect them. In Zimbabwe, for instance, impala herds have been culled and the meat given to farmers and their families. However, imposed solutions from Westerners, whose record of preserving their own wildlife has been atrocious and whose knowledge of Africa is mostly inaccurate or nonexistent, threaten to scuttle whatever modest success has been achieved. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions. That is the hope for Africans, both man and beast, and that is the courageous purpose of this book.".
- catalog contributor b4342698.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "1. Listening to Africa -- 2. The White Man's Game. Ivory Lust. Patricians. What Do We Believe In, and What About the Baobab? Africa Besieged -- 3. Whose Heritage Is It? -- 4. Space for Large Species -- 5. Hunted and Hunters -- 6. Hope.".
- catalog description "Bonner reveals and documents for the first time the ways in which some wildlife organizations suppress facts and ignore opinions of forward-thinking conservationists - opinions that might get in the way of good public relations. Examining these organizations as no one has done before, he has obtained internal documents that contain cautionary revelations: in one wildlife group, for example, a scientific consensus to oppose an ivory ban fell victim to expediency - the ban was supported with a campaign that played to the emotions for fear that otherwise fund-raising would suffer. Bonner finds hope in Africans who are practicing "sustainable utilization," whereby they profit from the animals and therefore want to protect them. In Zimbabwe, for instance, impala herds have been culled and the meat given to farmers and their families. ".
- catalog description "However, imposed solutions from Westerners, whose record of preserving their own wildlife has been atrocious and whose knowledge of Africa is mostly inaccurate or nonexistent, threaten to scuttle whatever modest success has been achieved. Not saving the wildlife is too horrible to contemplate, but saving it will require us to accept harsh realities and abandon romantic notions. That is the hope for Africans, both man and beast, and that is the courageous purpose of this book.".
- catalog description "In a book often shocking, always passionate and inevitably controversial, Raymond Bonner brings desperately needed illumination to one of the most important and emotional issues of our time: the threat to Africa's wildlife, and especially to the elephant. In cutting through prevailing misinformation to documented truth, he makes abundantly clear that unless we address the needs of Africans in their poverty and despair - instead of attempting to impose culturally biased Western solutions - the people will out of necessity destroy the wildlife, no matter how much Westerners protest. For Westerners, elephants are the stuff of exotic safaris and television nature shows. But it is the Africans whose land has been taken to create the parks, whose children are killed and whose subsistence farms are destroyed by elephants run amok, whose ecosystems are ruined by oversized elephant herds in countries like Kenya that can't support them (something we've heard little about). ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-305) and index.".
- catalog extent "322 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "At the hand of man.".
- catalog identifier "0679400087 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "At the hand of man.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Knopf,".
- catalog relation "At the hand of man.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "333.95/16/096 20".
- catalog subject "Economic development Environmental aspects Africa.".
- catalog subject "Nature Effect of human beings on Africa.".
- catalog subject "QL84.6.A1 B66 1993".
- catalog subject "Wildlife conservation Africa.".
- catalog subject "Wildlife management Africa.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Listening to Africa -- 2. The White Man's Game. Ivory Lust. Patricians. What Do We Believe In, and What About the Baobab? Africa Besieged -- 3. Whose Heritage Is It? -- 4. Space for Large Species -- 5. Hunted and Hunters -- 6. Hope.".
- catalog title "At the hand of man : peril and hope for Africa's wildlife / Raymond Bonner.".
- catalog type "text".