Battle for the Elephants

by Iain Douglas-Hamilton

The leaders in the fight for the protection of the African elephant report that despite the existence of refuges for the animals, 585,000 elephants have been slaughtered by poachers in the last decade. 25,000 first printing.

Genres: Nonfiction, Animals, Africa

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

Reviews

[Deborah Pickstone · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for the geocaching challenge, this should be out of date, having been published in the early '90s but sadly it isn't as poaching continues and has even taken an upsurge in recent years according to the WWF. An interesting and quite heartbreaking story of the fight to have a ban imposed on ivory poaching/trading. The worst part of the book is that at the end they spoke of progress being made, the ban being in effect and I closed the book knowing they had actually got nowhere. The ban remains in force and the poaching continues.