Ivory Crisis By Ian Parker & Mohamed Amin
Ivory Crisis By Ian Parker & Mohamed Amin
Hardcover
ISBN 0701126337
Publisher: Chatto & Windus Ltd 1983 First Edition.
Used - Very Good+. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover. Old tape residue marks, foxing.
Challenging treatise on African elephants and the ivory trade remains an important and groundbreaking work in its field.
"Foremost authority on the world's ivory trade, a leading expert on the management of elephants, a former game warden, farmer and hunter, Ian Parker draws on 25 years of field experience in Africa to illuminate the key issues behind conservation today. His conclusions are startling.
The traditional villains -- the poachers and the ivory traders -- are not as responsible for the plight of elephants in many African countries as is generally alleged. The fault lies much more with the governments of those countries where game laws are outdated and corruption is commonplace, and with the international conservation bodies which, inept and insufficient as they often are, have much to answer for, no matter how good the cause they are serving. Ian Parker's message is both carefully considered and deeply disturbing. If there is an ivory crisis (and even the pessimists admit that there are over a million elephants in Africa today), it is the activities of the conservationists themselves which constitute the main danger to the survival of the elephant.
The real crisis is in current conservation philosophy. Constructive as well as critical, IVORY CRISIS is a book for every animal lover, ecologist, and self-respecting conservationist. It is a tale of conflict and contradiction, paradox and parable, illustrated with exceptional photographs mostly taken by Mohamed Amin. It is the true story of ivory and the elephant, and of man's interest in both.".