Big Game of Botswana : The Tragic History of a Once Great Southern African Fauna / / by Clive Spinage

• Autore: Spinage Clive
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2024.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (178 pages)
• Disciplina: 333.9516
• Soggetto topico: Conservation biology; Ecology; Zoology; Animal migration; Biodiversity; Vertebrates; Applied ecology; Conservation Biology; Animal Migration; Vertebrate Zoology; Applied Ecology
• Nota di contenuto: Background 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Quoting 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Big Game of Botswana
• ISBN: 9783031600333; 9783031600326
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910865243903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II