LEADER 03887nam 22007215 450 001 9910865243903321 005 20240903135037.0 010 $a9783031600333$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031600326 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-60033-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31477227 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31477227 035 $a(CKB)32290987500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-60033-3 035 $a(OCoLC)1442248646 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932290987500041 100 $a20240613d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBig Game of Botswana $eThe Tragic History of a Once Great Southern African Fauna /$fby Clive Spinage 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (178 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Spinage, Clive Big Game of Botswana Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024 9783031600326 327 $aBackground to Big Game -- Impressions Good and Bad -- The Hunting Holocaust -- Requiem for the Rhino -- The Elephant in Botswana -- Demise of the Kalahari?s Great Herds -- Disease and Death -- The Expiring Kalahari -- They Had in Mind their Children -- Vanished are these Glories -- Appendices. 330 $aQuoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing beef export economy and the erection of veterinary cordon fences depriving the large game of migration routes in times of drought. Once possessing one of the greatest animal displacements in Africa, with huge migrations of antelope, this book underlines the reality that the fauna of Botswana today is but a tiny remnant of what was perhaps once one of the the greatest spectacles of big game on earth. It shows how the decline came about -- and the controls exercised by tribal chiefs illustrating the indigenous peoples? attitudes, and eventual protective measures both tribal and statutory. Whereas the pessimistic predictions of extinction at the end of the nineteenth century have happily not come true, nonetheless, the continued existence of this once great fauna is increasingly threatened by climate change threatening an already fragile balance, and human population increase with its increasing economic demands and changes in land use. The study fills a gap in the literature of African wildlife conservation and is distinctive by drawing upon a rich historical background. 606 $aConservation biology 606 $aEcology 606 $aZoology 606 $aAnimal migration 606 $aBiodiversity 606 $aVertebrates 606 $aApplied ecology 606 $aConservation Biology 606 $aZoology 606 $aAnimal Migration 606 $aBiodiversity 606 $aVertebrate Zoology 606 $aApplied Ecology 615 0$aConservation biology. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aZoology. 615 0$aAnimal migration. 615 0$aBiodiversity. 615 0$aVertebrates. 615 0$aApplied ecology. 615 14$aConservation Biology. 615 24$aZoology. 615 24$aAnimal Migration. 615 24$aBiodiversity. 615 24$aVertebrate Zoology. 615 24$aApplied Ecology. 676 $a333.9516 700 $aSpinage$b Clive$01742744 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865243903321 996 $aBig Game of Botswana$94169432 997 $aUNINA