![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Both her book, and that of Andrew Loveridge, a Zimbabwean zoologist with a special interest in lions, confirm the sadly ironic truth that awareness of the plight of species threatened with extinction – and our understanding of the richness and complexity of their lives – is growing at the same time as we witness an alarmingly rapid decline in their numbers.īoth Poached and Lion Hearted detail the industrial-scale destruction of wildlife for the dubious profit and pleasure of people who do not care about the suffering and destruction they cause. The optimism expressed in Poached by Love Nuwer, an American freelance science journalist who decided to investigate the enormous international trade in the body parts of endangered wildlife, is refreshing and much-needed.īy the same token, readers of her excellent book may have to work hard to maintain a positive outlook in the face of so much horror. ![]()
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