A Plea for the Elephants - Can Africa's Elephants be saved? by Kevin Parkinson
Plea for the Elephants - Can Africa's Elephants be saved? (First Edition Softcover Release)
A Piercing, Urgent Clarion Call Against the Global Ivory Cartels Threatening a Gentle Giant with Extinction
A Piercing, Urgent Clarion Call Against the Global Ivory Cartels Threatening a Gentle Giant with Extinction
Bibliographic Specifications
- Title: Plea for the Elephants - Can Africa's Elephants be saved?
- Author: Kevin Parkinson
- Publisher: Publishing World SA, Goodwood
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN-10: 1928350461
- ISBN-13: 9781928350460
- Edition Details: First Edition, Standard Softcover Release.
- Binding: Original publisher's premium heavy-gauge illustrated card wrappers.
- Physical Format: Octavo (8vo), 276 pages. Fully cross-referenced with regional population charts and timeline logs detailing international illegal trade networks.
- Language: English
Official Condition Report
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The Book: Very Good (VG)
o Exterior / Wraps: The original illustrated card wrappers are highly flat, square, and clean. Displays some minor, expected shelf wear and light boundary friction along the extremities, entirely consistent with careful handling and storage. The spine is completely straight, tight, unbroken, and free of vertical reading creases.
o Interior: The text block is robustly bound, tight, and immaculately clean. Internal pages are exceptionally crisp, white, and fully intact. Entirely free of standard user highlighting, previous owner gift inscriptions, library stamps, dealer pencil markings, or dog-ears. This copy has clearly been well-maintained and looked after thus far.
Synopsis & Historical Value
Published in 2016, Plea for the Elephants is animal activist Kevin Parkinson's hard-hitting, definitive exposé on the global ivory trade devastating the African continent. Writing with deep ethical clarity, Parkinson tracks the origins of the modern elephant crisis, showing how Hong Kong syndicates and Chinese triads imported roughly 4,000 tonnes of ivory between 1979 and 1987 alone—representing the brutal slaughter of more than 400,000 elephants. The text bridges historical records with contemporary field experiences, highlighting a modern landscape where poachers continue to illegally cull thousands of elephants annually, outpacing the mammals' slow natural breeding cycles. Parkinson balances a devastating deconstruction of corrupt customs officials and overseas carving factories with an intimate, moving defense of elephant intelligence and emotional capacity. A scarce, independently published piece of modern wildlife Africana, all profits originally generated by this book were dedicated directly to elephant conservation.
Published in 2016, Plea for the Elephants is animal activist Kevin Parkinson's hard-hitting, definitive exposé on the global ivory trade devastating the African continent. Writing with deep ethical clarity, Parkinson tracks the origins of the modern elephant crisis, showing how Hong Kong syndicates and Chinese triads imported roughly 4,000 tonnes of ivory between 1979 and 1987 alone—representing the brutal slaughter of more than 400,000 elephants. The text bridges historical records with contemporary field experiences, highlighting a modern landscape where poachers continue to illegally cull thousands of elephants annually, outpacing the mammals' slow natural breeding cycles. Parkinson balances a devastating deconstruction of corrupt customs officials and overseas carving factories with an intimate, moving defense of elephant intelligence and emotional capacity. A scarce, independently published piece of modern wildlife Africana, all profits originally generated by this book were dedicated directly to elephant conservation.
Author Profile: Kevin Parkinson
Kevin Parkinson is a passionate South African animal welfare activist, conservationist, and author dedicated to exposing global illicit wildlife economies. Alongside his wife Lynette, Parkinson has made it a lifelong mission to educate international audiences on the ecological importance of Southern Africa's megafauna, moving far beyond comfortable safaris to confront the armed syndicates backing the multi-billion-dollar illegal ivory industry. His investigative approach and field documentation—collaborating alongside independent documentary filmmakers—are highly regarded by animal welfare advocates for bridging raw, frontline environmental reporting with accessible public education. His literature remains an essential reference for modern environmental archivists and collectors of contemporary conservation histories.
Kevin Parkinson is a passionate South African animal welfare activist, conservationist, and author dedicated to exposing global illicit wildlife economies. Alongside his wife Lynette, Parkinson has made it a lifelong mission to educate international audiences on the ecological importance of Southern Africa's megafauna, moving far beyond comfortable safaris to confront the armed syndicates backing the multi-billion-dollar illegal ivory industry. His investigative approach and field documentation—collaborating alongside independent documentary filmmakers—are highly regarded by animal welfare advocates for bridging raw, frontline environmental reporting with accessible public education. His literature remains an essential reference for modern environmental archivists and collectors of contemporary conservation histories.
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