Shaping Kruger: The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park

Shaping Kruger: The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park provides fascinating insight into the lives, habits and behaviour of the larger animals that significantly affect the workings of the park.
Reardon, Mitch
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978-1-4317-0245-9
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Book title: Shaping Kruger
Subtitle: The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park
Author: Mitch Reardon
Type: Applied Geography
Imprint: Struik Nature
Publisher: Random House Struik
Cape Town, South Africa 2012
ISBN 9781431702459 / ISBN 978-1-4317-0245-9
Softcover, 17 x 23 cm, 176 pages, throughout colour photos

About: Shaping Kruger. The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park

The Kruger National Park is one of the world’s leading stewards of biological diversity. Its management requires ongoing monitoring and re-evaulation to ensure that species survive. Shaping Kruger: The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park provides fascinating insight into the lives, habits and behaviour of the larger animals that significantly affect the workings of the park. It expertly synthesizes decades of ground-breaking research into the animals and their environment, examining along the way individual species; predator-prey relationships; mammal distribution, and browsing and grazing interactions. This detailed look at how Park management has had to interpret, monitor and adapt the processes that allow species to survive, even thrive, in an ever-changing environment makes for an intriguing and enlightening read.

Content: Shaping Kruger. The Dynamics of Managing Wildlife in Africa's Premier Game Park

Introduction
The role of the elephant
The ubiquitous impala
The mingled destinies of zebras and wildebeest
The riddle of the disappearing roan antelope
Return of the rhinoceros
African buffalo trails
A giraffe's eye view
Lions and their prey
The secret life of leopards
Bushveld cheetahs
Wild dog running
The hyaena's song
Index