03624nam a22005535i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001200153050001600165072001700181072001600198072002300214072001600237072001500253100014400268245013000412250001800542264006900560300006500629336002600694337002600720338003600746347002400782505030100806520149301107650002602600650001502626650001302641650002202654650001802676650001702694650002102711650002602732650001302758650002202771650001802793650002402811650002102835710003402856773002602890776003602916776003602952776003602988856004603024978-3-031-60033-3DE-He21320251030112311.0cr nn 008mamaa240613s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316003337 a10.1007/978-3-031-60033-32doi 4aQH75-77 4aQH540-549.5 7aPSAF2bicssc 7aRNK2bicssc 7aSCI0200002bisacsh 7aPSAF2thema 7aRNK2thema1 aSpinage, Clive.eauthor.0(orcid)0000-0003-4055-422X1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4055-422X4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aBig Game of Botswanah[electronic resource] :bThe Tragic History of a Once Great Southern African Fauna /cby Clive Spinage.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXIV, 171 p. 36 illus., 27 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aBackground to Big Game -- Impressions Good and Bad -- The Hunting Holocaust -- Requiem for the Rhino -- The Elephant in Botswana -- Demise of the Kalahari’s Great Herds -- Disease and Death -- The Expiring Kalahari -- They Had in Mind their Children -- Vanished are these Glories -- Appendices.  aQuoting contemporary accounts from hunters, missionaries and traders from the early nineteenth century onwards, this book illustrates the ecology of the country as it was emphasizing its rich large mammal fauna, its decline from increasing aridity of the country, it destruction by hunters, by disease, and most importantly, destruction of its vast herds, notably of wildebeest, due to the developing beef export economy and the erection of veterinary cordon fences depriving the large game of migration routes in times of drought. Once possessing one of the greatest animal displacements in Africa, with huge migrations of antelope, this book underlines the reality that the fauna of Botswana today is but a tiny remnant of what was perhaps once one of the the greatest spectacles of big game on earth. It shows how the decline came about -- and the controls exercised by tribal chiefs illustrating the indigenous peoples’ attitudes, and eventual protective measures both tribal and statutory. Whereas the pessimistic predictions of extinction at the end of the nineteenth century have happily not come true, nonetheless, the continued existence of this once great fauna is increasingly threatened by climate change threatening an already fragile balance, and human population increase with its increasing economic demands and changes in land use. The study fills a gap in the literature of African wildlife conservation and is distinctive by drawing upon a rich historical background. 0aConservation biology. 0aEcology . 0aZoology. 0aAnimal migration. 0aBiodiversity. 0aVertebrates. 0aApplied ecology.14aConservation Biology.24aZoology.24aAnimal Migration.24aBiodiversity.24aVertebrate Zoology.24aApplied Ecology.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303160032608iPrinted edition:z978303160034008iPrinted edition:z978303160035740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60033-3