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In Mkomazi, 1976

Before the colonialists arrived, there were an estimated 25 million elephants in Africa... By 1900 this number had fallen to 10 million and by 1979 the counts of the elephant population were down to 1.3 million. By the mid-1990s they were below 300,000.

The End of the Game

50th Anniversary Edition

“The deeper the white man went into Africa, the faster the life flowed out of it, off the plains and out of the bush...vanishing in acres of trophies and hides and carcasses.” ― Peter Beard

A landmark publication on Africa, The End of the Game combines Peter Beard’s salient text and remarkable photographs to document the overpopulation and starvation of tens of thousands of elephants, rhinos, and hippos in Kenya’s Tsavo lowlands and Uganda parklands in the 1960s and ’70s.

Researched and compiled over two decades, Beard’s work is a powerful and poignant testimony to the damage done by human intervention in Africa. His own images and texts are supplemented by historical photographs of, and writings from, the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries, and big-game hunters whose quest for adventure and “progress” were to change the face of a continent: Theodore Roosevelt, Frederick Courteney Selous, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), Philip Percival, J.A. Hunter, Ernest Hemingway, and J.H. Patterson.

Marking the 50th anniversary of its first publication, TASCHEN now republishes The End of the Game in a limited edition of 5,000 copies, with an updated foreword by internationally renowned travel and fiction writer Paul Theroux. Touching on such themes as distance from nature, density and stress, and loss of common sense, this seminal portrait is as resonant today, amid growing environmental crises, as it was a half century ago.

• https://www.amazon.com/Peter-Beard-Game-50th-Anniversary/dp/3836555476

Extinction

"Mutilation of the Tree of Life"

Endangered Species

In the Age of the Anthropocene

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We Are Living in a Mass Extinction

Scientists say Earth is in midst of a 'Sixth Mass Extinction' with wildlife on Earth running out of places to live

60 Minutes / CBS / January 1, 2023

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earth-mass-extinction-60-minutes-2023-01-01/

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Sixth_Mass_Extinction_infograph-NYT.jpg

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