Research Catalog

Title

Killing for profit : exposing the illegal rhino horn trade / Julian Rademeyer.

Author

Rademeyer, Julian.

Publication

Cape Town : Zebra Press, 2012.

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Description

xi, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color portraits; 23 cm

Summary

"On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin. This is the chilling story of a two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld and the merciless syndicates that will stop at nothing to obtain their prize. It is a tale of greed, folly and corruption, and of an increasingly desperate battle to save the rhino -- which has survived for more than fifty million years -- from extinction."--Back cover.

Subject

• Wild animal trade
• Nature conservation > Political aspects
• Endangered species
• Rhinoceroses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Crooks' corner -- The wiseguy -- Apartheid's secret -- Operation lock -- The superspy -- The hunters -- The 'Boeremafia' -- Johnny the Rat -- The killing -- Juju and the 'poacher' -- Poacher's moon -- Hard knocks -- The embassy -- Shopping for rhino horn in Hanoi -- The kingpin.

ISBN

• 9781770223349 (pbk.)
• 1770223347 (pbk.)
• 9781770223356 (epub.)
• 1770223355 (epub.)
• 9781770223363 (PDF)
• 1770223363 (PDF)

OCLC

• ocn817565102
• 817565102
• SCSB-5679147

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries