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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956157303321

Autore

Cunningham Carol

Titolo

Horn of darkness : rhinos on the edge / / Carol Cunningham, Joel Berger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-770132-9

1-280-52924-5

9786610529247

0-19-535488-5

1-4294-1569-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

599.72/8

Soggetti

Black rhinoceros

Wildlife conservation - Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Black Rhino Time Line; Map; I: YEAR OF THE MOPANE FLY [1991]; II: YEAR OF THE TSONGOLOLO [1992]; III: YEAR OF THE SCORPION [1993]; IV: YEAR OF THE HUMAN [1994]; Epilogue; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Glossary; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The world's rhinoceroses face extinction because their horns are regarded as extremely valuable. Cunningham and Berger spent 3 years in the Namib desert studying Africa's last sizable group of rhinos, and struggling to find a way to conserve them.