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Ivory : power and poaching in Africa
- Title
- Ivory : power and poaching in Africa / Keith Somerville.
- Author
- Somerville, Keith
- Publication
- London : Hurst & Company, 2016.
- New York, NY : Distributed in the United States, Canada and Latin Amercia by Oxford University Press
- ©2016
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- Description
- xvii, 390 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Subject
- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973 March 3)
- Ivory industry > Corrupt practices > Africa
- African elephant > Effect of poaching on
- African elephant > Effect of hunting on
- African elephant > Conservation
- Poaching > Political aspects > Africa
- Ivory industry > Corrupt practices
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-371) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Africa and ivory : an ancient but bloody and brutal trade -- 2. The nineteenth century : one hundred years of exploitation and extermination -- 3. The ivory trade and criminalisation of African hunters under colonial rule -- 4. Conservation, corruption, crime and conflict in East Africa -- 5. The killing fields of Central and Southern Africa -- 6. The CITES saga -- 7. Resurgent poaching : soaring Chinese demand and developing insurgency discourse -- 8. Conclusion.
- Call Number
- Sc D 17-1184
- ISBN
- 9781849046763
- 184904676X
- OCLC
- 950450616
- Author
- Somerville, Keith, author.
- Title
- Ivory : power and poaching in Africa / Keith Somerville.
- Publisher
- London : Hurst & Company, 2016.
- Distributor
- New York, NY : Distributed in the United States, Canada and Latin Amercia by Oxford University Press
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-371) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 17-1184