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.
Historical Incidence of the Larger Land Mammals in the Broader Eastern Cape
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.
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.
Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions
Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions - 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 Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions write by Agustina Barros. This book was released on 2022-12-14. Tourism, Recreation and Biological Invasions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first section of the book includes information about how tourism-related infrastructure and activities promote biological invasions, including key pathways for non-native invasive species introductions. This section provides case studies of different organisms that are known to be introduced and/or promoted by tourism in different ecosystems or regions. The second section elaborates on known and potential impacts of invasive species on tourism and recreation, including how they may affect, positively or negatively, the economic revenue from tourism, tourist access, recreation, aesthetic values and tourists' perceptions. The last section focuses on management and policy, covering aspects of how visitors perceive invasive species and their willingness to manage them, biosecurity measures to prevent invasion related to tourism, as well as potential policy options moving forward. The book draws on a number of examples across multiple taxa, landscapes and regions of the world.
Biological Invasions in South Africa
Biological Invasions in South Africa - 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 Biological Invasions in South Africa write by Brian W. van Wilgen. This book was released on 2020-03-10. Biological Invasions in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This open access volume presents a comprehensive account of all aspects of biological invasions in South Africa, where research has been conducted over more than three decades, and where bold initiatives have been implemented in attempts to control invasions and to reduce their ecological, economic and social effects. It covers a broad range of themes, including history, policy development and implementation, the status of invasions of animals and plants in terrestrial, marine and freshwater environments, the development of a robust ecological theory around biological invasions, the effectiveness of management interventions, and scenarios for the future. The South African situation stands out because of the remarkable diversity of the country, and the wide range of problems encountered in its varied ecosystems, which has resulted in a disproportionate investment into both research and management. The South African experience holds many lessons for other parts of the world, and this book should be of immense value to researchers, students, managers, and policy-makers who deal with biological invasions and ecosystem management and conservation in most other regions.
