Click here for NICC Library Webpage	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   ID Information   Calmar New Materials   Peosta New Materials

Advanced Alphabetical Basic History

Search:  General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordISBN/ISSN Exact MatchISBN/ISSN BrowseSerial Title BrowseTitle AlphabeticalSubject AlphabeticalAuthor AlphabeticalAlphabetical SeriesBarcodeBib No.Journal/Newspaper Title BrowseSeries Keyword       Refine Search     > You're searching: Northeast Iowa Community College

Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Somerville, Keith, author.     Subjects     Elefanten     Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (1973 March 3)     Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen.     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.     Elfenbeinhandel.     Schmuggel     Korruption.     Elefanten.     Wilderei.     Bedrohte Tiere.     Artensterben.     Elfenbeinhandel.     Schmuggel     Korruption.     Wilderei.     Bedrohte Tiere.     Artensterben.     Afrika.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Somerville, Keith, author.       by title:      Ivory : power and po...         MARC Display

Ivory : power and poaching in Africa / Keith Somerville. by Somerville, Keith, author. London : Hurst & Company, 2016. Description:  xvii, 390 pages : maps ; 23 cm 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. Summary:  "Despite the 1989 global ivory trade ban, poaching and ivory smuggling have not abated. More than half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similarly alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa. But why the new upsurge? The popular narrative blames a meeting of two evils -- criminal poaching and terrorism. But the answer is not that simple. Since ancient times, large-scale killing of elephants for their tusks has been driven by demand beyond Africa's range states from the Egyptian pharaohs through the industrialising West to the new wealthy business class of China. Elephant hunting in Africa is also governed by human-elephant conflict, traditional hunting practices and the impact of colonial exploitation and criminalisation. Ivory follows this complex history of the tusk trade in Africa, and explains why it is corruption, crime and politics, rather than insurgency, that we should worry about. In this ground-breaking work, Somerville argues that regulation -- not prohibition -- of the ivory trade is the best way to stop uncontrolled poaching." -- Publisher's description   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Peosta Library Circulation Stacks 381.4567 Som 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9807

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.