The Conservationists and the Killers. The Story of Game Protection and the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa
Language: English
Published by (Cape Town: T. V. Bulpin / Books of Africa, 1982) 0949956236, 1982
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Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Gqeberha, South AfricaChristison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Folio; original green boards, with gilt device to upper board and spine lettered in gilt; pictorial dustwrapper; pictorial endpapers; pp. 319, including index; illustrated with maps, line drawings, reproductions of colour wildlife paintings, and photographs. Dustwrapper ever so slightly rubbed to lower panel; merest trace of spotting to top edge. Near fine condition. "When man reached the intellectual divide which separates the killers from the conservationists in Southern Africa, it was almost too late. While there is general acceptance in this world that all countries should preserve at least 10 per cent of their area for wilderness, nature, recreation and purity of watersheds, South Africa today has less than 4 per cent of its once seemingly boundless land conserved and safe from despoliation. The story of how even that small area was conserved is a story of the dedication and inspiration, not of governments, but of individuals, of small associations and of the Wildlife Society which increasingly works today in Southern Africa to guard the heritage of nature, to conserve what is left of the wilderness, to seek out areas where the flowers, plants, trees and all wild creatures can be restored to their former glory with the remarkable resilience of nature when human beings find harmony with their environment instead of destroying it, where the conservationists take over from the killers.".…
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- Title
- The Conservationists and the Killers. The Story of Game Protection and the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa
- Author
- Pringle, John A., with Creina Bond and John Clark
- Publisher
- (Cape Town: T. V. Bulpin / Books of Africa, 1982) 0949956236
- Publication year
- 1982
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0949956236
- ISBN 13
- 9780949956231
To the first men who evolved, migrated or settled in Africa, the continent seemed boundless and its natural resources unlimited. They killed, burned, slashed and destroyed without thought of the consequences. Why conserve or domesticate if the numbers were inexhaustible?
Only the ostrich was domesticated in Southern Africa. All other wild creatures were slaughtered without mercy, some to extinction, others to the brink of annihilation. The last quagga, a female, died on 12 August 1883.
She died not on the South African veld, not on those wide plains which had once been "darkened as far as the eye can reach with a moving phalanx of gnoos and quaggas whose numbers literally baffle computation". Instead, the solitary survivor of the race lay down and died in a cage in the Amsterdam Zoo, Holland. With that the quagga species became extinct.
Nine days after the death of this lonely quagga, a group of people concerned at what was happening to wildlife in Natal, met in Durban and formed a game protection society. From this humble beginning commenced the struggle for conservation in Southern Africa. It is a poignant but inspiring story, often brutal, bitter, full of disappointment and despair, but with a darkness illuminated by the faith of many dedicated people who worked incessantly towards the ideal of man living in greater harmony with nature.
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