Ivory : power and poaching in Africa
Sommerville, Keith2016
Books, Manuscripts
Find it!
Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told in herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and ivory smuggling in the new millennium has destroyed the hope that the 1989 ivory trade ban had capped poaching and would lead to a long-term fall in demand. But why the new upsurge? This new and ground-breaking examination of the history and politics of ivory in Africa forensically examines why poaching happens in Africa and why it is corruption, crime and politics, rather than insurgency, that we should worry about.
Main title:
Ivory : power and poaching in Africa / Keith Somerville.
Author:
Sommerville, Keith, author
Imprint:
London : Hurst & Company, 2016.
Collation:
xvii, 390 pages : maps (black and white) ; 23 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781849046763 (hbk)
Dewey class:
381.4567943381.4
LC class:
HD9429.I862
Local class:
381.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1774732