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Record Nr.

UNINA9910527000803321

Autore

Cioc Mark

Titolo

The game of conservation : international treaties to protect the world's migratory animals / / Mark Cioc

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2009

ISBN

9780821443606

0821443607

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Ohio University Press series in ecology and history

Disciplina

591.56/8

Soggetti

Migratory animals - Conservation - International cooperation

Wildlife conservation (International law)

Animal welfare - Law and legislation

Treaties

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Africa's apartheid parks -- The North American bird war -- The Antarctic whale massacre.

Sommario/riassunto

The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.  Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted by major breakthroughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of migratory species. The treaties had many defects, yet they also served the goal of c