Nature Crime: How We're Getting Conservation Wrong

by Rosaleen Duffy

In this impressively researched, alarming book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates the world of nature conservation, arguing that the West's attitude to endangered wildlife is shallow, self-contradictory, and ultimately very damaging. Analyzing the workings of the black-market wildlife industry, Duffy points out that illegal trading is often the direct result of Western consumer desires, from coltan for cellular phones to exotic meats sold in London street...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300154348
• ISBN13: 9780300154344
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"