Poached : inside the dark world of wildlife trafficking
(2018)
By:
Nuwer, Rachel
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
364.16/NUWER,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Da Capo Press, 2018
©2018
©2018
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
ix, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780306825507, 0306825503 :, 0306825503, 9781925322859, 1925322858, 9780306825507
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Part I. Drivers of demand. The hunter ; Her sister's pangolin scale guy ; Rhino horn in the cookie tin ; The holy grail of herpetology ; White gold -- Part II. Inside the trade. The $50,000,000 bonfire ; The CITES circus ; Of prostitutes, poachers, and politicans ; The front line -- Part III. The saving game. A park reborn ; If rhinos could choose ; My tiger wine is corked ; Rising moon bears ; Order ahead for pangolin
Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who believe it is not too late to stop the impending extinctions