Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Eastern Cape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Eastern Cape write by Cuthbert John Skead. This book was released on 2007. Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Eastern Cape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Western and Northern Cape
Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Western and Northern Cape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Western and Northern Cape write by Cuthbert John Skead. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Western and Northern Cape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
East of the Cape
East of the Cape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East of the Cape write by Richard Cowling. This book was released on 2015-06-12. East of the Cape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of East of the Cape: Conserving Eden is a story about nature and people. The drama takes place in a region located on the south-eastern coast of Africa where nature’s diversity is manifest: rainforest, karoo, fynbos, grassland and savanna are juxtaposed in complex and intriguing ways. Aptly called Eden, this region is also home to thicket, a Lilliputian forest of great antiquity that harbours the ancient stock of many plant lineages found in southern Africa’s contemporary ecosystems. Eden is also home to a diversity of human cultures, each of which has left its mark on nature. From the birth of humankind to the present day, the footprint of Eden’s inhabitants has become progressively heavier. For the past 150 years, since the onset of South Africa’s industrial age, a growing population and increasing demands on nature have ravaged Eden, especially its thicket. But just as people have been the cause of Eden’s degradation, so too can they provide the solution. In East of the Cape, authors Richard Cowling and Shirley Pierce present a blueprint for conservation that seeks to engender a culture of managing natural resources wisely and safeguarding nature and its services for a sustainable Eden.
Death and Compassion
Death and Compassion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death and Compassion write by Dan Wylie. This book was released on 2018-10-01. Death and Compassion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the literary history of the elephant, and its role in South Africa's cultural imaginary Elephants are in dire straits – again. They were virtually extirpated from much of Africa by European hunters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but their numbers resurged for a while in the heyday of late-colonial conservation efforts in the twentieth. Now, according to one estimate, an elephant is being killed every 15 minutes. This is at the same time that the reasons for being especially compassionate and protective towards elephants are now so well-known that they have become almost a cliché: their high intelligence, rich emotional lives including a capacity for mourning, caring matriarchal societal structures, that strangely charismatic grace. Saving elephants is one of the iconic conservation struggles of our time. As a society we must aspire to understand how and why people develop compassion – or fail to do so – and what stories we tell ourselves about animals that reveal the relationship between ourselves and animals. This book is the first study to probe the primary features, and possible effects, of some major literary genres as they pertain to elephants south of the Zambezi over three centuries: indigenous forms, early European travelogues, hunting accounts, novels, game ranger memoirs, scientists’ accounts, and poems. It examines what these literatures imply about the various and diverse attitudes towards elephants, about who shows compassion towards them, in what ways and why. It is the story of a developing contestation between death and compassion, between those who kill and those who love and protect.
Elephant management
Elephant management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Elephant management write by Robert (Bob) Scholes. This book was released on 2008-03-01. Elephant management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic –members of South Africa's wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result, elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. The information needed to underpin vital decisions about elephant management has largely been unavailable to decision-makers, contested by experts, or simply unknown. As a result, the South African Minister for Environmental Affairs and Tourism convened a round table to advise him on this issue. The round table recommended that a scientific assessment of elephant management be undertaken to gather, evaluate, and present all the relevant information on this topic. Its main findings and recommendations are contained in this volume. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savanna elephant populations and factors relevant to managing them to date. As such it is of interest to a broad spectrum of readers in South Africa and elsewhere. Above all, it is aimed at helping conservation policy-makers and practitioners to choose the best possible options for the sustainable preservation of these iconic animals.
