When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be
The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, a conservationist who has dedicated his life to saving the last rhinos, vividly told with the help of Graham Spence, co-author of the bestselling The Elephant Whi
An award-winning conservationist traces his efforts to save the endangered White Rhino, describing the brutal region where the last 15 were struggling to survive, the bureaucratic forces the author na
The largest land mammals are constrained in their activities by their large body size, a theme that is emphasized in this account of their general ecology. The book begins by raising the question as to why these once abundant and widely distributed 'megaherbivores' - elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes - have all but gone extinct, and ends by considering the implications of the answer for the conservation of the remaining populations. Existing megaherbivores are placed in the context of the more numerous species which occurred worldwide until the end of the last Ice Age, and knowledge of the ecology of surviving species is used to analyse the cause of the extinctions. The information and ideas contained in this book are of crucial importance to all concerned with halting the rapidly worsening conservation status of remaining elephant and rhinoceros species, and carries a wider message for those concerned with the ramifying effects of man on ecosystem processes. Graduate students and
勞倫斯‧安東尼(Lawrence Anthony)是一位著名的自然保護主義者。他在南非的保護區內從事針對大象及其他許多野生動物的保護工作，其中也包括因偷獵而瀕危的白犀牛。他們的家園――剛果飽受戰火蹂躪。在《最後的犀牛》(The Last Rhinos)這本書中，安東尼詳述了他如何試著挽救這些珍貴動物的經歷。白犀牛最後的棲息地是聖靈抵抗軍的勢力範圍。這是一支臭名昭著的反政府武裝。面對抵抗軍僵化又官僚
A murder of crows. A crash of rhinos. Why is it that animals got all the fun collective nouns?At long last we have a comprehensive taxonomy that does justice to the various subspecies of the creative
