Overkill: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife

Overkill: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife describes the history and extent of human impact on the worlds wildlife.
Clarke, James
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Title: Overkill
Subtitle: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife
Author: James Clarke
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Struik Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2017
ISBN 9781775845775 / ISBN 978-1-77-584577-5
Softcover, 15 x 22 cm, 195 Pages, 1 map

About: Overkill: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife

Africa, the nursery from which Homo sapiens came, is the only landmass that today has most of its megafauna intact. The survivors of the Pleistocene still live across thousands of square kilometres of sub-Saharan Africa. Overkill: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife describes how this came about, and traces the history of human impact on land-based and marine megafauna. It examines the roles played by hunters, past and present, good and bad. It describes how, in the 21st century, "big-game" populations in Africa began to lurch towards the edge of oblivion. By 2016, the African lion population had fallen to between 20,000 and 25,000. The elephant population fell by 100,000 in a few years. Rhinoceroses, which were saved from extinction 50 years ago, were being shot at the rate of three a day.

The giraffe population plummeted to around 100,000. Far Eastern nationals, residents, visitors and even diplomats, were implicated in this casual slaughter of protected species. Their depredations cost, annually, the deaths of tens of thousands of megafauna, marine and terrestrial. Every country south of the Sahara was pillaged, and 90% of the contraband was bound for China and Vietnam. This overkill rates as one of history's biggest international crimes. After any war, and this has been a war, the aggressor is obliged to pay reparations. But will China, the prime aggressor, and its accomplices be held to account and forced to help fund the restoration of the areas they have ravaged? In 2016, the African wildlife situation reached its lowest ebb. The good news is this: the lowest ebb is always the turn of the tide.

Content: Overkill: The Race To Save Africa's Wildlife

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
DEDICATION
GAME AND NATURE RESERVES OF AFRICA
IN THE BEGINNING
THE RIFLE BRIGADE
THE PREDATOR'S WAY
TO KILL A LION
THE ELEPHANT - DOWN, BUT NOT OUT
RHINO: E IS FOR EXTINCTION
THE SEA - THE LAST RESOURCE
THE GAME IS ON
FOOTNOTE
POSTSCRIPT
INDEX