But nothing conveyed the horror of the slaughter—or the enormity of the task that I had been given—than what I saw in thatstoreroom on that afternoon. It was windowless and airless; aslightly acrid,musty odor hung in the air.
A prominent figure in world conservation and African politics details his crusade to save Kenya's natural resources, especially the African elephant.
Best of all, though, these stories are so remarkably entertaining you won't want to put them down. Wildlife Wars is the winner of the 2000 National Outdoor Book Award, Nature and the Environment Category.
Wildlife Wars serves up tales from Terry Grosz's early years as a game warden in the field for the State of California, where he matched wits with elk poachers, salmon snaggers, duck harvesters, and a host of other law-breakers.
More than a memoir, this heartfelt work is an account of the famed paleoanthropologist's struggle to protect African wildlife, and captures Kenya's struggle to balance the needs of its human population with the task of maintaining the world ...
Environmentalism meets Indiana Jones in these rip-snorting tales of a former wildlife conservation officer. The bad guys here are illegal deer hunters, law-breaking drag-boat fishermen who pilfer the ocean depths,...