Saving the Last Rhinos

Grant Fowlds, Graham Spence

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781643135120
• Subtopic: Science & Technology Biographies
• Index: Biological Sciences

The remarkable story of Grant Fowlds, who has dedicated his life to saving the imperiled rhinos, vividly told with Graham Spence, co-author of the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer. What would drive a man to 'smuggle' rhino horn back into Africa at great risk to himself? This is just one of the situations Fowlds has put himself in as part of his ongoing fight against poaching, in order to prove a link between southern Africa and the illicit, lucrative trade in rhino horn in Vietnam.Shavings of rhino horn are sold as a snake-oil "cures, " but a rhino's horn has no magical, medicinal properties whatsoever. Yet it is for this that rhinoceroses are being killed at an escalating rate that puts the survival of the species in jeopardy. This corrupt, illegal war on wildlife has brought an iconic animal to the brink of extinction.Growing up on a farm in the eastern Cape of South Africa, Grant developed a deep love of nature, turning his back on hunting to focus on saving wildlife of all kinds and the environment that sustains both them and us. He is a passionate conservationist who puts himself on the front line of protecting rhinos in the wild—right now, against armed poachers—and in the long term, through his work with schoolchildren, communities, and policymakers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Prologue
• Chapter One: Goats and Growing Up
• Chapter Two: Hunting for the Right Answers
• Chapter Three: Wild Lesson, Wild Men, Wild Coast
• Chapter Four: Goats and the Sons of Shaka
• Chapter Five: A is for Amakhala
• Chapter Six: The Big Five
• Chapter Seven: A Miracle of Life
• Chapter Eight: Geza, the Naughty One
• Chapter Nine: The Last Stand
• Chapter Ten: The End of the Farm
• Chapter Eleven: Rhino Art – Drawing for Species Survival
• Chapter Twelve: Voices of the Future
• Chapter Thirteen: The Horn Market of the World
• Chapter Fourteen: The Hague
• Chapter Fifteen: Rumble in the Jungle
• Chapter Sixteen: Parc de la N’Sele
• Chapter Seventeen: The Heart of Africa
• Chapter Eighteen: Tumble in the Jungle
• Chapter Nineteen: Saddling Up for New Solutions
• Chapter Twenty: Hooves for Horns
• Chapter Twenty-one: Riding for Rhinos
• Chapter Twenty-two: Was It Eco-scamming?
• Chapter Twenty-three: Humble in the Jungle
• Chapter Twenty-four: At Congo’s Coalface
• Chapter Twenty-five: Walking with Giants
• Chapter Twenty-six: Land Made in Anger
• Chapter Twenty-seven: Wild at Heart
• Chapter Twenty-eight: Loziba – An African Dream
• Chapter Twenty-nine: The Warrior Ethos
• Chapter Thirty: The Will of the People
• Chapter Thirty-one: Ghostriders in the Sky
• Chapter Thirty-two: A Prince of the People
• Chapter Thirty-three: When Harry Met Bill
• Chapter Thirty-four: Visions of the Future
• Photographs
• About the Author
• Glossary
• Charities and NGOs
• Index
• Copyright