The last two : the battle to save the northern white rhinos /
Videmšek, Boštjan, 1975-
The last two : the battle to save the northern white rhinos / Boštjan Videmšek and Maja Prijatelj Videmšek ; photographs by Matjaž Krivic. - ix, 227 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Waiting for a color postcard -- Chapter 1: The rhinocide -- Chapter 2: An evening at the rhino cemetery -- Chapter 3: Poaching: a long genocidal chain -- Chapter 4: God's particle in human hands -- Chapter 5: Creating life -- Chapter 6: The girls speak Czech -- Chapter 7: What can be sacrificed to save a species? -- Chapter 8: Resurrecting the elephants in Samburu -- Chapter 9: The front line -- Chapter 10: Life after life.
This is the story of the last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, as the species has fallen victim to poaching, wars, climate change, and Asian economic boom to become functionally extinct, as well as the story of the scientists and conservationists around the world fighting to save the species through scientific innovation.
9781538178461 153817846X
GBC3B0107 bnb
021088742 Uk
White rhinoceros--Conservation.
The last two : the battle to save the northern white rhinos / Boštjan Videmšek and Maja Prijatelj Videmšek ; photographs by Matjaž Krivic. - ix, 227 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Waiting for a color postcard -- Chapter 1: The rhinocide -- Chapter 2: An evening at the rhino cemetery -- Chapter 3: Poaching: a long genocidal chain -- Chapter 4: God's particle in human hands -- Chapter 5: Creating life -- Chapter 6: The girls speak Czech -- Chapter 7: What can be sacrificed to save a species? -- Chapter 8: Resurrecting the elephants in Samburu -- Chapter 9: The front line -- Chapter 10: Life after life.
This is the story of the last two northern white rhinos, Najin and Fatu, as the species has fallen victim to poaching, wars, climate change, and Asian economic boom to become functionally extinct, as well as the story of the scientists and conservationists around the world fighting to save the species through scientific innovation.
9781538178461 153817846X
GBC3B0107 bnb
021088742 Uk
White rhinoceros--Conservation.