Book Review: The Last Elephants
Acknowledged African wildlife experts John Hanks and John Ledger take a critical look at Don Pinnock and Colin Bell’s The Last Elephants. Hanks concludes with “enjoy the book for its great photographs, but please read the text critically and with an open mind for alternative options”; Ledger writes “it is time for a different approach, and hiding one of Africa’s conservation success stories is not a very convincing way to win a spitting contest.”READ MORE
Book Review: The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns: From Mammoth On The Menu To The Benefits Of Moose Drool
Jim Williams gives a tongue-in-cheek review of Robert M Zink’s enjoyable new book peppered with many facts.READ MORE
Book Review: End Of The Megafauna: The Fate Of The World’s Hugest, Fiercest, And Strangest Animals
Silvio Calabi reviews Ross D.E. MacPhee’s book End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals. For all its intellectual rigor and occasionally academic language, MacPhee’s book was written for lay people. The last chapter shows how the fossils of giant bears, mammoths and saber-toothed cats could point to astonishing future developments.READ MORE
Abstracts of Recently Published Papers on Hunting & Conservation
The Conservation Frontlines Team selected a range of new scientific, peer-reviewed papers. Scan over the abstracts to get an overview. All items have links to the original papers where you can explore the complex issues of global conservation in depth.READ MORE
Book Review: Call of the Mild – Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner
Call of the Mild: Learning to Hunt My Own Dinner. Lily Raff McCaulou. 2012. Grand Central Publishing, ISBN 9-7814555-00741. Hardcover 336pp, $24.99. READ MORE
Book Review: Three Interesting Books on Wild Meat Processing and its Preparation in Your Kitchen
Die 100 besten Wildrezepte. Karl-Josef Fuchs (in German). 2013. Tre Torri Verlag. Hardcover, 28,0 × 29,0 cm, 240 pages with many color photos. ISBN 9783941641983 / ISBN 978-3-944628-68-4. Order at Tre Torri-Shop for €49.90 (approx. US$57.00).READ MORE
Book Review: Towards a Sustainable, Participatory and Inclusive Wild Meat Sector
Towards a sustainable, participatory and inclusive wild meat sector. Authors: Coad L, Fa J E, Abernethy K, Van Vliet N, Santamaria C, Wilkie D, El Bizri H R, Ingram D J, Cawthorn D-M & Nasi R. Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia. 2019.READ MORE