Ivory, horn and blood
Subtitle: behind the elephant and rhinoceros poaching crisis
By: Ronald Orenstein
Publisher: Firefly Books
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781770852273
Subjects: Poaching; Asiatic elephant; Wildlife conservation; Effect of poaching on; Corrupt practices; Ivory industry; Conservation; Rhinoceros horn industry; Rhinoceroses; African elephant
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Iain Douglas-Hamilton; title: Introduction; title: Part one. What happened? The living elephants; title: The living rhinoceroses; title: Ivory and luxury; title: Not an aphrodisiac; title: What makes poachers poach?; title: CITES and the first ivory crisis; title: the ivory ban; title: Rhinos under fire; title: Part two. What went wrong? Re-opening the trade; title: New markets for horn; title: Behind the surge; title: Rhinos and prostitutes; title: War on elephants; title: The last rhinos; title: Corruption, theft and organized crime; title: Part three. What can be done? Coming to grips with poaching; title: Should trade be legalized?; title: Dealing with demand; title: The future; title: Postscript. The 2013 CITES meeting.